Conclusions Quotes

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller

Reach, Thinks, Pleasant

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin

Succeed, Jump, Quickly

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan

Talk, Read, Books

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

Learned, Soul, Genius

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

Life, Art, Drawing

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
Charles Darwin

Facts, Machine, Observing

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Samuel Butler

Enough, Reason, Far

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
George Santayana

Women, Men, Sex

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

Women, Men, Different

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

Experience, Seems, Lead

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 G. Bulwer-Lytton

Life, Learned, Reason

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
Mary Webb

Music, Nature, Her

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

Perhaps, Detective, Protective

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
Sonia Sotomayor

Heart, Law, Cases

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

Good, Experience, Sometimes

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.
Maya Lin

Lost, Away, Dictate

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.
Edward E. Barnard

And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.
Sharron Angle

Great, Country, Might

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
Haruki Murakami

Understand, Leave, Open

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
Vince Cable

Women, Happy, Two

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.
George Saunders

Good, Short, Whatever

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
Philip Guedalla

Jump, Rarely, Alight

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
Minna Antrim

Women, Intuition, Gift

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
Antonio Tabucchi

Talent, Genius, Three

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.
David Frum

Mother, Cared, Reached

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.
Charles Kennedy

Politics, Style, Says

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
George Henry Lewes

True, End, Philosophy

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
John Barton

Challenge, Reading, Draw

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.
Ronald Fisher

Free, Decisions, Making

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.
Michael Behe

Science, Said, Often

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