Conclusion Quotes

• People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

  Helen Keller

  Sad, Stars, Thinking

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.57, NYU Press

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• Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

  Roger Bacon

  Mind, Doe, Path

  1267 Opus Majus (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).

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• To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

  Benjamin Franklin

  New Beginnings, Opportunity, Succeed

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• Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.

  Jim Rohn

  Thinking, Views, Decision

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 09, 2013

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• The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Social Taboos

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.145, Vintage

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• You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

  Barry Levinson

  Want

  "Barry Levinson on ‘Killing Fields’ and True Crime Storytelling". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  1934 The World as I See It.

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• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  Notebooks "Life" (1912)

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• We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

  Albert Camus

  Lasts, Certain, Ifs

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• I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Women, May, Too Much

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Man with the Twisted Lip" (1891). Holmes enigmatically distrusts women yet values their judgment.

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• The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Future, Science

  Albert Einstein (2002). “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”

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• There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mistake, Opinion, Hasty

  Method and Results The Progress of Science (p. 369)

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• The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Social Taboos

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.145, Vintage

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• A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

  Dan Chaon

  Hilarious, Peace, Tired

  Dan Chaon (2012). “Stay Awake: Stories”, p.59, Ballantine Books

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• We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

  Ronald Fisher

  Decision, Mind, Summarizing

  "Chances Are: Adventures in Probability". Book by Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan, 2003.

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• Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.

  Peter Sellers

  Justice, Let Me

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• I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Science, Machines

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• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  "János: The Story of a Doctor". Book by János Plesch, 1947.

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• Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspirational, Dog, Cat

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.16, Da Capo Press

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• Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

  Arthur Bloch

  Support, Research, Enough

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• Conclusions are not always pleasant.

  James W. Loewen

  Pleasant

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.44, The New Press

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• Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

  Mary Webb

  Nature, Silence, Music Is

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• I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Life, Political, Politics

  Quoted in Clement Attlee, A Prime Minister Remembers (1961) See Briand 2; Clemenceau 4

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• After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Son, Christianity

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• Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

  Minna Antrim

  Mistake, Intuition, Quality

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