Jeeves in the Offing (1960)
Eliza Dushku in Black and White http://www.elizadushkuonline.com/html_articles/2002/06_improper-bostonian.html
General sources
Context: Permit me, sir, to give you one piece of advice. Be not so positive; especially with regard to things which are neither easy nor necessary to be determined. When I was young I was sure of everything. In a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before. At present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to man.
Reply to a letter signed "Philosophaster" addressed to him in the London Magazine of 1774, in London Magazine 1775, p. 26
Variant: Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.
Source: Freak the Mighty
Interview with Earth First! in Administrative Maximum Facility Prison, Florence, Colorado, USA, (June 1999)
Interviews
Précis of The Modularity of Mind, 1985.
Modularity of Mind (1983)
“Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.”
Maxim 15, p. 256
Maxims for Her Nuns (1963)
“If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.”
Source: A Little History of the World (2005), p. 90.
