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Quotes About Conclusions

I try not to spend too much time interpreting my comics for people, because I try to put out there whatever I can, and people can draw whatever conclusions they want.
~ Randall Munroe
Everyone has a smart phone, and everything is recorded. One event spills into another. Conclusions come quickly at the near total expense of consideration of what just actually happened.
~ Mike Barnicle
What I believe is we're able to push the boundaries of our knowledge only so long as we keep our focus on phenomena itself, rejecting metaphysical conclusions and false certainty, however comforting they may be.
~ Sean Chercover
Surprising, thought the professor as he turned away from Lydia and her notes. Really surprising how, in spite of drawing the wrong conclusions, one can arrive at the correct and all-important question
~ Sebastian Fitzek
The truth or falsehood of all of man's conclusions, inferences, thought and knowledge rests on the truth or falsehood of his definitions.
~ Ayn Rand
We cannot jump to conclusions. All we can do is measure and count. That is the task of science.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I smiled. You mean, to play it the way you would. Yes, that was probably true. Again, she would be coming to similar conclusions, mutatis mutandis, as the lawyers like to say, about me.
~ Barry Eisler
Logic matters. It leads us from simple ideas to surprising conclusions.
~ Steven E. Landsburg
A major theme of this book is that none of us, thinking alone, is rational enough to consistently come to sound conclusions: rationality emerges from a community of reasoners who spot each other's fallacies.
~ Steven Pinker
if we now feel comfortable rejecting the conclusions of the Witztum study, what does that say about the reliability of our standard statistical tests?
~ Jordan Ellenberg
Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
~ Evan Esar
The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
~ John Barton
I like to bring my kids to the voting booth to show them how it works. I'll let them draw their own conclusions as to how worthwhile it is.
~ Stephen J. Dubner
Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The fermenta cognitionis which Lessing scattered into the world were not intended to communicate conclusions, but to stimulate others to independent thought, and this for no other purpose than to bring about a discourse between thinkers.
~ Hannah Arendt
I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
With too little data, you won't be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that aren't real... Big data isn't about bits, it's about talent.
~ Douglas Merrill
Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.
~ Anaxagoras
Events and experiences in life determine our attitude. If we have a positive experience with a person, our attitude towards him is likely to be positive and conversely negative experiences tend to make us cautious. Experiences and events become reference points in our lives and we draw conclusions which serve as guidelines for the future.
~ Shiv Khera
Childhood's logic never asks to be proved (all conclusions are absolute).
~ Maya Angelou
For he mixes up unanswerable things with false conclusions, he is perpetually letting the cat out of the bag and exposing our tricks, putting a colour to our actions, disturbing us with our own memory, indecently revealing corners of the soul.
~ Belloc
The Interborough issues are an example of a rather special group of situations in which analysis may reach more definite conclusions respecting intrinsic value than in the ordinary case. These situations may involve a liquidation or give rise to technical operations known as "arbitrage" or "hedging.
~ Benjamin Graham
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.
~ Benjamin Graham
The quantitative factors lend themselves far better to thoroughgoing analysis than do the qualitative factors. The former are fewer in number, more easily obtainable, and much better suited to the forming of definite and dependable conclusions.
~ Benjamin Graham