Tentativeness Quotes

I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.

I'm such a chronic relativist, I can't hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough.

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

Tyson was still staring at Chiron in amazement. He whimpered like he wanted to pat Chiron's flank but was afraid to come closer. "Pony?

Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is cocksure, vague and self-contradictory. The first step towards philosophy consists in becoming aware of these defects, not in order to rest content with a lazy scepticism, but in order to substitute an amended kind of knowledge which shall be tentative, precise and self-consistent.

I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm writing about.

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.