Lizzie Andrew Borden Quotes

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

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

Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously…. If we are forced to infer a process only from its … results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities.

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.

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

Guessing isn't knowing.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay.

Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

All depends really on what kinds of assumptions you make. When you're forecasting things that will be happening 50 to 100 years in the future, it's really hard to predict what's going to happen that far out, so you have to make a bunch of assumptions.

If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

I'm going away," he said. "And I want you to know that I'm coming back. I love you because...." "Don't say anything," Fatima interrupted. "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

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

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

who is invisible enough to see you

I don't return fruit. Fruit's a gamble. I know that going in.

Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.