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?
quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
quote by George Santayana
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What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
quote by Clara Zetkin
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Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
quote by John Barton
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Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works.
quote by Herman Gorter
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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
quote by Ambrose Bierce
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Genius. To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown premises to discern the soul of things.
quote by Ambrose Bierce
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In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
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.
quote by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
quote by Helen Keller
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So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered.
quote by Charles Lyell
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Yet if there really were a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from the evidence? Might it not equally well determine that we draw the wrong conclusion? Or no conclusion at all?
quote by Stephen Hawking
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The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
quote by Morris Raphael Cohen
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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.
quote by Sharron Angle
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How Little I Know
When I was young, I knew it all.
The world was simple as I recall.
Things were right or wrong and black or white.
Everything was within my sight.
As I grew older the world changed,
Or maybe my thinking rearranged.
I became less apt to draw quick conclusions,
As I became aware of many confusions.
I learned to listen and think before I spoke.
Then when even older my mind awoke.
It awoke and I understood to my surprise,
Knowing how little I know can be wise.
poem by Gregory Huyette
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Am I? - 1282
I Am! - or am I just because WE think
in tune with, and in opposition to
the tears, toil, trouble that ‘today' hold true
of any given space-time in the pink.
The Pierian spring from which we drink
has seldom seemed more muddied, skies less blue,
though options grow, their focus narrows too,
as few take time from time and from the brink
draw back to draw conclusions which can link
coherently, providing overview,
beyond the information flood. What's true,
objective, as upon life's skating rink
Man rushes headlong heedless of thin ice
which may engulf vainglory in a trice? ...
(22 June 2005)
poem by Jonathan Robin
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
quote by Samuel Butler
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Jump to Conclusions
Jump to conclusions,
As often as you wish.
Have you done your self evaluations yet?
And what did you come up with?
No need to solicit,
Outside opinions at all.
From Sunrise to Sunset!
Where were you to determine those decisions made,
Had been done without you being conscious of this?
Or when your absence of responsibility,
Could not find your shoulders,
To land upon or fall!
Jump to conclusions,
As often as you wish.
Have you done your self evaluations yet?
And what did you come up with?
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Undoubtedly it is our duty, and for our best good, that we occupy and improve the faculties, with which our creator has endowed us, but so far as prejudice, or prepossession of opinion prevails over our minds, in the same proportion, reason is excluded from our theory or practice. Therefore if we would acquire useful knowledge, we must first divest ourselves of those impediments and sincerely endeavor to search out the truth: and draw our conclusions from reason and just argument, which will never conform to our inclination, interest or fancy but we must conform to that if we would judge rightly.
quote by Ethan Allen
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It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information. . . . We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.