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We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in…

— Michael Crichton

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness…

— Jane Austen

Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or…

— Plutarch

“Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are…

— Morris F. Cohen

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can…

— John Maynard Keynes

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Alas for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their own sway.…

— Rabindranath Tagore

We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps…

— Alice Cary

I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

— Dale E. Turner

Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will…

— E. M. Delafield

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

— Daniel Kahneman