Conclusion Quotes - Page 5

• The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

  Alistair Cooke

  Best Friend, Christian, Children

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• But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Thinking, Hands, Four Elements

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• My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

  Laurie Anderson

  Jobs, People, Decision

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• I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Marriage, Humor

  Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning, 1 Apr. 1838

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• The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Technology, Years, Machines

  1880 TheWanderer and His Shadow, aphorism 278.

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• Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Men, Undecided

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• There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

  John Roberts

  Church, Elements, Matter

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• Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

  Pythagoras

  Judging, Done, Firsts

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• In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Book, People

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• Despair is the conclusion of fools.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Doubt, Despair, Fool

  Benjamin Disraeli, Earl Of Beacon The Earl of Beaconsfield (2010). “Novels and Tales by the Earl of Beaconsfield”, p.226, Wildside Press LLC

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• However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

  Frantz Fanon

  Destiny, Men, White

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.12, Pluto Press

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• And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.

  Sharron Angle

  Country, Father, Writing

  "Tea Party Choice Scrambles in Taking On Reid in Nevada". www.nytimes.com. August 17, 2010.

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• In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Japan, Style

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• It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Heart, Law, Cases

  "Another Day Of Questions For Sotomayor". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 15, 2009.

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• They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

  Hans Blix

  Fake People, Iraq, Long

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• It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.

  Francis William Aston

  Long, Needs, Weight

  Nobel Lecture, 1922.

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• But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

  Nassau William Senior

  Science, Drawing, Long

  Nassau William Senior (1858). “Political Economy”, p.4

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• The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Inquiry, Philosopher, Logical

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• My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.

  Henry Adams

  History, Water, Development

  Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams: 1868-1885”

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• The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

  Roger Bacon

  Queens, Science, Long

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• A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.

  Ezra Stiles

  Two, People, Together

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• I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

  Tim LaHaye

  Fiction, Fiction Writers

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• Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

  Gayle Forman

  People, Leaving, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 13, 2014

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• Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

  Evan Esar

  Science, Math, Statistics

  Esar's Comic Dictionary

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• The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

  Michael Behe

  Data, Design, Flow

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