In the three years I played ball we won six lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose.
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people you would be perfectly comfortable.
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Reason with most people means their own opinions.
Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
If you do everything you should do and do not do anything you should not do you will according to the best available statistics live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.
It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.
It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.
A power greater than any human being helped make this decision.
He who reflects too much will achieve little.
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence.
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
When possible make the decisions now even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
We spend our days in deliberating and we end them without coming to any resolve.
If you think too long you think wrong.
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