Quotes About Conclusion

Whatever begins, also ends.

If it's time for your character to go, it's time for your character to go - you know what I mean? That's it. It doesn't matter who you are.

After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it it is reasonably certain that this one jumped to the conclusion that the nineteen million years was a preparation for him; but that would be just like an oyster, which is the most conceited animal there is, except man. And anyway, this one could not know, at that early date, that he was only an incident in a scheme, and that there was some more in the scheme yet.

So I gave up the idea of a circus, and concluded he was from an asylum.  But we never came to an asylum—so I was up a stump, as you may say.

No better book ends than two walls.

The last words of Max Vandenburg - You've done enough.

starts upon the supposition that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It

process, said I, starts upon the supposition that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It may well be that several explanations remain, in which case one tries test after test until one or other of them has a convincing amount of support.

Casi todo el mundo, ante una sucesión de hechos, acertará a colegir qué se sigue de ellos... Los distintos acontecimientos son percibidos por la inteligencia, en la que, ya organizados, apuntan a un resultado. A partir de éste, sin embargo, pocas gentes saben recorrer el camino contrario, es decir, el de los pasos cuya sucesión condujo al punto final. A semejante virtud deductiva llamo razonar hacia atrás o analíticamente

That will do," cried Holmes. "What became of him?

É um grande erro teorizar antes de ter todos os indícios. Prejudica o raciocínio.

Es una equivocación garrafal elaborar teorías antes de disponer de todos los elementos de juicio, porque así es como éste se tuerse en un determinado sentido.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

The question now was, who was the man, and who was it brought him the coronet? "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

In the end it didn't matter of course.

That left only one possibility:

So what else was there but to biopsy?

What he found was unsurprising.

Everyone gets an ending. Whether or not it's happy is up to them.

It wasn't pretty, that much was true. But it looked like an ending. Neat. Complete.

Once he thought he had concluded that it would be better to get killed directly and end his troubles. Regarding death thus out of the corner of his eye, he conceived it to be nothing but rest, and he was filled with a momentary astonishment that he should have made an extraordinary commotion over the mere matter of getting killed.

Such attitudes are grotesque, impudent and irrelevant. 'Could do better' is a meaningless conclusion. 'Could be happier' is the only one that counts.