When the doctor was there, Alfred refused to believe that he'd had a stroke. "I can't have had a stroke," he grated, in a terrible rage, "I've got 93,000 pounds in my current account."

He may not accept the outcome of the election? I promise you he won’t, The guy is not a Democrat with a small ‘D.

He was not a man who told himself comfortable lies.

The one who performs a deed and his heart does not believe in that deed, Allah will not accept any of his practices - but that it be along with the sincerity of intention.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

A man in daily muddy contact with field experiments could not be expected to have much faith in any direct assumption of independently distributed normal errors.

[He] is not going to exit to applause, even if the entire human race should favor him.

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Verily wondered what the man could have the audacity to say, in the face of such evidence—what whining, sniveling complaint or protest he might utter.

One trusted machines. But one never expected machines to return the favor.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

If I am a fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

“Would you find that convincing?”
“No.” Justin Foote nodded. “Reasonable. When a rational man hears something asserted that conflicts with all common sense he will not—and should not—believe it without compelling evidence.