Deductions Quotes - Page 5

• The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.271, Delphi Classics

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• Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

  John Locke

  Atheism, Credit, Reason

  John Locke (1825). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author”

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• Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

  David Lodge

  Lyric Poetry, Analysis, Literature

  David Lodge (2002). “Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel”, p.37, Psychology Press

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• Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant rationale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Class, Events, Sociology

  "The bulletin of mathematical biophysics" by Anatol Rapoport, (p. 183), 1949.

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• Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Rights, Self

  Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”

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• The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it is reduced down to the moment and to pleasure, things like that, that's not what sexuality is all about. Sexuality was to be in tandem with the sacred, not amputated from it.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Ideas, Sacred, Example

  Source: www.apologetics315.com

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• How do you think we have the home mortgage deduction? We have it because way back when it was determined that the American dream equaled home ownership. And everybody knows that the vast majority of the American people will never be able to write a check for a house. You have to finance it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Writing, Home

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If Hillary [Clinton] is elected, is she going to be able to jack up taxes with virtually no deductions, and include capital gains? Unless democrats have a clean sweep of Congress, I don't think that's going to happen either.

  Gary Shilling

  Thinking, Able, Gains

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Historical, Doubt

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.654, Jazzybee Verlag

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• President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.

  Dick Morris

  War, Average, President

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• President Obama's recommended reduction in the tax deduction for charitable giving reflects his fundamental belief that only the government can or should help the poor. He wants to keep the impoverished directly dependent on the government - and the Democratic Party - for their daily bread.

  Dick Morris

  Party, Government, Giving

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• With money we really fool ourselves. We are our biggest enemies with money and there are some things we can do about it. Automatic deductions are a wonderful thing. But ideally, you should wait until the end of the month, you can see how much extra money you had, and you should put that in your savings account. We don't do that too well, and if we did that, we would never save. So, what we do, is we take money out of our pocket into the saving account at the beginning of the month, take it outside of our control and as a consequence, we spend less and we save more.

  Dan Ariely

  Waiting, Enemy, Pockets

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble.

  W. Brian Arthur

  Real, Doe, Way

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• The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere in life is this so common as in war, where the facts are seldom fully known and the underlying motives even less so.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, May, Causes

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.156, Princeton University Press

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• If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.

  Ameen Rihani

  Spiritual, People, Inspire

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• Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Reasoning, Premises, Straws

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• If your biggest tax deduction was bail money, you might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Bail, Might

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• Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Thinking, Priorities, Doe

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• Unlike every other retirement vehicle, such as IRAs and 401(k)s, you receive a tax deduction for making contributions to your HSA but don't have to pay income taxes on withdrawals.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Retirement, Income, Ira

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• My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Eye, Years, History

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• I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film!

  Hugh Jackman

  Thinking, May, Film

  "Hugh Jackman Talks Reuniting with Bryan Singer, Battling Sentinels, How Long He’ll Play Wolverine, and More on the Set of X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 19, 2014.

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• Last year I had difficulty with my income tax. I tried to take my analyst off as a business deduction. The Government said it was entertainment. We compromised finally and made it a religious contribution.

  Woody Allen

  Religious, Government, Years

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• Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.

  Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

  Fields, Tasks, Mathematics

  "Vorlesungen über analytische Mechanik" edited by Helmut Pulte, 1996.

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• There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect.

  Eric Hoffer

  Reading, Profound, Detectives

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Real, Eye, Men

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2005). “Average Jones”, p.17, 1st World Publishing

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