Best Probability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 7

Source: The Philosophical Works: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Ed. Publ. by the Author

“I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.”

“They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.”

People Facts Desire Voice Possibility Probability Contradictory Impatient Unreality

Book:FAULKNER READER

Source: FAULKNER READER

“Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the maybe's, the what if's, the probabilities spoil something so lovely?”

Ifs Problem Enjoy Mistake Worry Tomorrow Creating Obstacles Lovely What If Probability Spoil Digging

Author:Nora Roberts

“In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. Future scientists will call it the Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows.”

“Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.”

Knows I Can Can Do Embrace Hunger Probability Peeta Haymitch Imminent Death

Author:Suzanne Collins

“Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.”

Acceptance Ignorance Development Method Mere Complicated Certainty Odds Probability Dice Computation

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.”

Law Existence Possibility Sheer Probability Impossibility

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neither proved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent.”

Reason Existence Regard Consideration No Reason Cents Probability Spectrum Immune

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.”

World Should Facts Individual Realizing Chance Accepting Absolutes Horrible Certainty Mature Uncertain Probability Absolute Certainty

Author:Albert Ellis

“And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most valuable asset. My own instincts have repeatedly guided me against the grain of logic and probability. When I have trusted and followed their direction, they have never been wrong. I don't know how or why. But I know that every significant experience-positive or negative-sharpens them and makes them more accurate.”

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

“Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.”

Events Lows Probability

Book:The Universe versus Alex Woods

Source: The Universe versus Alex Woods

“Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.”

Two Chance Events Involved Meaningful Coincidence Being Happy Probability Chances Are Synchronicity

Book:Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal

Source: Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal

“The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.”