#infer

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on. ↗

— Amos Tversky

#truth #faith

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#ever #felt #few #going #inferior

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it. ↗

— Toba Beta

#inferiority #life #magnify #overconfidence #risk

If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #william-herondale #marriage

I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials," said Will. "And I wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we've eaten." He looked sideways at Tessa. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clare #poison #the-infernal-devices #will #death

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#being #decrees #destroying #inferior #inferiority

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#does #fact #individual #inferior #inferiority

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#function #heaven #hell #hell is #inferno

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God. ↗

— George Berkeley

#being #created #dependency #existence #find

Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno. ↗

— Anders Zorn

#arrived #become #elevator #finally #inferno