Quotes About Conclusions

A deep breath as I worked the cobwebs out, then I stood. Reality came crashing home. Someone had attacked me. Here. On Morris Island. Miles from anywhere a stranger should be. Facts molded into conclusions. I'd been targeted. There was no other reasonable explanation. Not for an attack on this deserted beach, at this late hour. Not out here in the middle of nowhere.

Falsehood and error arise, not from our perceptions, but from the conclusions to which we jump about things which have not yet been established as true; in such cases further investigation may not confirm our first opinions, and may even disprove them. . . .

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?

It makes a great difference by what path we come to a knowledge of certain things. If we begin in our youth with metaphysics and religion we can easily proceed along a series of rational conclusions that will lead us to the immortality of the soul. Not every other path will lead to this, at least not quite so easily.

easy for people who aren't in risky jobs to pass judgment—and come to a lot of wrong conclusions—when someone pulls back.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Nobody here is questioning the victory. I want to know President-elect [Donald] Trump doesn't believe the conclusions of 17 intelligence agencies.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions.

aside from deriving conclusions from static measures of inequality—the methods he used were flawed:

That second is not in itself significant enough for someone to draw conclusions.

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?

It was found in practice that when the examinations were conducted in a spirit which led up to conclusions which were bits of advice, often no action was taken; whereas by leaving it to spontaneity in the individual and to his own sense of responsibility, action is taken in the overwhelming majority of cases.

We can try to balance sympathy and skepticism. And then we can learn to hold our conclusions lightly, lightly enough so that we can let them go if justice demands that we do.

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

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premisses, but in the nature and parts of premisses.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

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

I call you metaphysicians because you reason metaphysically, Ernest went on. Your method of reasoning is the opposite to that of science. There is no validity to your conclusions. You can prove everything and nothing, and no two of you can agree upon anything. Each of you goes into his own consciousness to explain himself and the universe. As well may you lift yourselves by your own bootstraps as to explain consciousness by consciousness.

Insanity? The mental processes of a man with whom one disagrees, are always wrong. Where is the line between wrong mind and sane mind? It is inconceivable that any sane man can radically disagree with one's most sane conclusions.

I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people up. You know what, after a while some sane dialogue and sane conclusions come of that kind of thing.