Conclusion Quotes - Page 4

• Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Journey, Innovation, Intuition

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mother, Baby, Children

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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• It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

  Eisaku Sato

  Government, Proliferation Treaty, People

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• I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

  John Lone

  People, Trying, Looks

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• In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Years, Expansion, Billions

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

  Ian Stewart

  Lying, Science, Convincing

  Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen (1999). “Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Errors, Long Ago, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.184, Vintage

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• 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

  Education, Philosophy, Principles

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• If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Business, Saving

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• Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions.

  Bernard Lonergan

  New Beginnings, Discovery, Creative

  Bernard Lonergan (1992). “Insight: A Study of Human Understanding”, p.77, University of Toronto Press

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

  George Santayana

  Experience, Draws, Empiricism

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

  Philip Guedalla

  People

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• The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Order, Data, Giving

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• I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law

  Wilfred Owen

  Philosophy, Law, Analysis

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.410, Delphi Classics

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Soul, Genius, Draws

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1216, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  People, Detectives, Sexually

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• I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

  Paul Cezanne

  Helping Others, Helping

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• I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Believe, Careers, Wicked World

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• I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Strength, Courage, Umpires

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

  Herbie Hancock

  Teens, Remember, Ends

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• The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

  David Hume

  Pregnancy, Ethics, Morality

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• The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

  James N. Miller

  Exercise, Jumping, Bungee Jumping

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• We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Thinking, Ideas, Problem

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• My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

  Laurie Anderson

  Jobs, People, Decision

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• One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Artist, Horrible

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