William Cowper Quotes

There can be an easy way to interpret things some times and it seems like maybe I'm on the wrong side of those interpretations a lot of those times.

But what if our intelligence is wrong?

I lived with uncertainty.

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

My whole life, people have been like, 'I don't know if you're playing or serious.'

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the effect for the cause.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

Well, I haven't seen the records. I haven't seen Hilary Rosen; I personally know three Hilary Rosen's, so I don't know that this Hilary Rosen is the one we're talking about.