Conclusion Quotes

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

  Helen Keller

  Sad, Stars, Thinking

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.57, NYU Press

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• Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

  Roger Bacon

  Mind, Doe, Path

  1267 Opus Majus (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  New Beginnings, Opportunity, Succeed

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• Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.

  Jim Rohn

  Thinking, Views, Decision

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jun 09, 2013

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• The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Social Taboos

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.145, Vintage

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• I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  1934 The World as I See It.

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• I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Women, May, Too Much

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Man with the Twisted Lip" (1891). Holmes enigmatically distrusts women yet values their judgment.

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

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  Notebooks "Life" (1912)

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• There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mistake, Opinion, Hasty

  Method and Results The Progress of Science (p. 369)

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• 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

  Decision, Mind, Summarizing

  "Chances Are: Adventures in Probability". Book by Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan, 2003.

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• I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

  Tim LaHaye

  Fiction, Fiction Writers

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• A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

  Dan Chaon

  Hilarious, Peace, Tired

  Dan Chaon (2012). “Stay Awake: Stories”, p.59, Ballantine Books

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• It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fun, Justify

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• I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Life, Political, Politics

  Quoted in Clement Attlee, A Prime Minister Remembers (1961) See Briand 2; Clemenceau 4

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• Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

  Gayle Forman

  People, Leaving, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 13, 2014

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• I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

  Simon Newcomb

  Way, Study, Mathematics

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• 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 Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Truth, Thinking, Firsts

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• It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.

  Francis Crick

  Numbers, Nonsense, Lows

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• Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

  Charles Dance

  Writing, Next Day, Written

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• How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking, Firsts, Moral

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• I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

  Peter Stone

  Humor, Men, Law

  Sherman Edwards, Peter Stone (1976). “1776: A Musical Play”, Penguin Group USA

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• We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

  Albert Camus

  Lasts, Certain, Ifs

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Science, Machines

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• We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.

  Silvan Shalom

  Suicide, Four, Territory

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• The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

  Alistair Cooke

  Best Friend, Christian, Children

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