Barry Unsworth Quotes

I owe it to myself and to historic truth to declare that some circumstances … are founded only in conjecture and analogy.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Guessing isn't knowing.

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

We do not know. We can only guess.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Nobody really knows everything, and they can only assume.

All 'potential' means to me is that you haven't proved anything.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

No one knows anything for sure.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

I never know how much of what I say is true.

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

I don't have answers. I have questions.