When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love… — Kay Hagan Copy Share Image
You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“One life on this earth is all we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the… — Diane F. Halpern Copy Share Image
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
This report has been difficult to write because it involves something that doesn't officially exist. It is well known that ever since… — Edward J. Ruppelt Copy Share Image
The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary,… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
… it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The share of wealth held by the minority is much greater than the share held by the majority. We have to draw… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
I've firmly come to the conclusion that there are no 'themes' for me anymore. I can't be told who to hate, who… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to… — Myles Horton Copy Share Image
Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
Some have immersed themselves in internet materials that magnify, exaggerate, and in some cases invent shortcomings of early Church leaders. Then they… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
Thimerosal is commonly used as an antiseptic/preservative in vaccines in the range of 1:10,000 to 1:20,000. Welsh's and Hunter's 1940 findings, applied… — Jamie Murphy Copy Share Image
I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history's repeating itself on many different counts. You don't get very far… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
