Roald Dahl Quotes

I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.

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

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Many things are possible. Few things are certain.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

I can't predict the future.

There are no certainties.

Nobody knows what will happen in the future.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

I always say nothing you can imagine is totally impossible. It might be unlikely, but that's as far as I'll go.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

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

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

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

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

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.

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?

A thousand probabilities don't make one fact.