Quote by Tom Stoppard
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. – Tom Stoppard

Other quotes by Tom Stoppard

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember Ive liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. – Tom Stoppard

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Age
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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. – Tom Stoppard

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Change
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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. – Tom Stoppard

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work
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Other Quotes from
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Truth

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Truth

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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Truth

Love truth, but pardon error. – Voltaire

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Truth

Random Quotes

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor. – Scott Thompson

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Humor

Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice. – Will and Ariel Durant, Our Oriental Heritage

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History

“They say” is often a great liar. – Proverb

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Gossip

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men