Benign Quote by Timothy Geithner

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

— B. W. Powe

For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes.

— Joseph M. Juran

High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk:…

— Anthony Giddens

The probable is what usually happens.

— Aristotle

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

— Anonymous

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

— Jane Austen

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

— Benjamin Disraeli

There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

— Sax Rohmer

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to…

— Henri Poincare