Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

I can't predict the future.

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

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.

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

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

We will never have 100 percent certainty except in hindsight.

A thousand probabilities don't make one fact.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.

Nobody knows what will happen in the future.

All 'potential' means to me is that you haven't proved anything.

Nobody knows the future.

Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.

Many things are possible. Few things are certain.