Related:

• Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in tha
  for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct....
• it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the pa
  eligious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability....
• And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.
  -- Rubáiyát. Stanza lxxvii....
• I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience.
  And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true....
• The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground.
  It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon. -- Franz Kafka...
• Actually, the probability is 100% that the elevator will be going in the right direction.
  Proof by induction: N=1. Trivialy true, since both you and the elevator only have one floor to go to....