Drawing Conclusions Quotes

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

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  Notebooks "Life" (1912)

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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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• What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Drawing, Sometimes, Deny

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 123, 1799.

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• The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

  Virginia Woolf

  Drawing, Mind, Receiving

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2593, Delphi Classics

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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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• Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

  Alexander Kotov

  Learning, Drawing, Growth

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• Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Spiritual, Peace

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.10, Penguin

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• The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Ideas, Drawing, Names

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.114

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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 art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Art, Drawing, Estimating

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• Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Soul, Genius, Conclusion

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1216, Delphi Classics

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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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• Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Conclusion, Draws

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Truth, Thinking, Firsts

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• How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking, Firsts, Moral

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• Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.

  Jennifer James

  Spiritual, Business, Communication

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• I couldn't possibly tell you. But I would say be very careful with your suppositions. People are so quick to jump. That's what I love about playing the character. People are so quick to draw conclusions about who he is. The whole thing about Loki is that he's dancing on this liminal line between redemption and destruction. Just be very careful about drawing conclusions based on what you see.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Character, Drawing, People

  "Tom Hiddleston on The Hollow Crown, Loki's return in Thor: The Dark World and his take on Joss Whedon's much ado about nothing". Interview with Roth Cornet, www.ign.com. September 19, 2013.

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• The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Science, Drawing, Study

  "The Philosophy of Peirce: Selected Writings".

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