Jodi Picoult Quotes

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

I owe it to myself and to historic truth to declare that some circumstances … are founded only in conjecture and analogy.

Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

The true is the whole.

As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.

I don't know what the future holds.

Life is one indivisible whole.

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.

And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.

It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an event may happen or fail. With the degree of information we possess concerning the circumstances of an event, the reason we have to think that it will occur, or, to use a single term, our expectation of it will vary. Probability is the expectation founded upon partial knowledge.

Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.