David Hume Quotes

I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

The danger is you never know if people are actually saying what they mean. I've learned you never know how someone will react.

Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.

Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear.

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

If I have not been completely honest with you, it is only because I know a great deal of things that you do not want to know. I am going to ask that you trust me when I tell you I am trying to make things better. It is an extremely delicate balance and there are a great many factors involved. The best we can do right now is take everything as it comes, and not to worry ourselves over things that have happened, or things that are to come.

When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.

The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.

Simon, would you still care for me if you discovered I was not who I say I am?" What do you mean?" I mean would you still care for me, no matter what you came to know?" What a thing to ponder. I don't know what to say." The answer is no. He does not need to say it. With a sigh, Simon digs at the fire with the iron poker. Bits of the charred log fall away, revealing the angry insides. they flare orange for a moment, then quiet down again. After three tries, he gives up. I'm afraid this fire's had it." I can see a few embers remaining. "No, I think not. If..." He sighs, and it says everything.

There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does happen, and yet out of the anguish and waste, love and trust come in new forms.

An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.

Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act, or how they'll handle an extreme situation. But to be honest, no one knows. Not reallyBecause none of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't.

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.