Quotes About Inference

Each time it happens we're tempted to infer the direct intervention of a Maker.

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

He's assuming. And as the man once told me himself: assume makes an ass out of u and me.

More broadly, formal logic of the sort we have been talking about does only one thing well: it allows us to take knowledge of which we are certain and apply rules that are always valid to deduce new knowledge of which we are also certain.

From those blurred and fragmentary memories we may infer much, yet prove little. We may guess that in dreams life, matter, and vitality, as the earth knows such things, are not necessarily constant; and that time and space do not exist as our waking selves comprehend them.

I so dislike moments of revelation, Captain. One is invited to infer all manner of deliberation leading us to this place, this time. When the truth of it is chance and mischance rule our every step.

Where there's fire, there's smoke.

Consider the famous syllogism "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal." So far, so good. But just because all men are mortal, it does not follow that all mortals are men, and it certainly does not follow that all men are Socrates.

They say you're the average of the five people you spend the most time with, he says, glaring at me, nostrils flaring like a wolf. Doesn't say a lot about the company you keep, does it. That's one, he points in Paddy's direction. I wonder who the other four losers are in your life.

When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

so intimate is the intermingling of bodily and psychic traits" wrote Carl Jung "that not only can we draw far-reaching inferences as to the constitution of the psyche from the constitution of the body, but we can also infer from psychic peculiarities the corresponding bodily characteristics.

Show me your friends and I will show you your future

I cannot, therefore, perceive external things, but can only infer their existence from my own inner perception, by taking the perception as the effect of which something external must be the proximate cause.

Un encadenamiento de razonamientosválidos sólo puede llevar a la determinación de la verdad.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason—if you pick the proper postulates.

Eliminate the impossible and whatever remained, however improbable, was the truth.

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know.

Our guts can really mislead us. Sometimes, what we think of as our gut is something else, like an outside influence. If you're going to buy an apartment and it smells of freshly baked bread, you're more likely to want to buy it.