Quotes for All
People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide – but that’s exactly what you’d expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The … Read more
I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular. Errol Morris
In Bergman’s world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made films in Italy and other places, I was used in different ways. I was rather often cast as crazy people, maniacs. It was very good for me and it was fun because it … Read more
In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one – yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and … Read more
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? Epicurus
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Epicurus
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? Epicurus
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. Enrico Fermi
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think. Elbert Hubbard
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical Edwin Hubbel Chapin