...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I am a very curious person; I'll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for -- a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon.… — Robert E. Vardeman Copy Share Image
Conclusion: Big helix in several chains, phosphates on outside, phosphate-phosphate inter-helical bonds disrupted by water. Phosphate links available to proteins. — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in… — Gary Bartz Copy Share Image
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
We also use our imagination and take shortcuts to fill gaps in patterns of nonvisual data. As with visual input, we draw… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion, that if my advice wouldn't be taken by those who needed it most and was stolen by… — William H. McMaster Copy Share Image
During my time here [Guantanamo], as Nelson Mandela says … the most important thing you have is time to think about things.… — Omar Khadr Copy Share Image
In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the status of a person's job was more… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected,… — Edmund Pellegrino Copy Share Image
“Atheism is a conclusion reached by the most reasonable methods and one which is not asserted dogmatically but is explained in its… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think the term "interbeing" has cropped up in a lot of places. It's in the atmosphere, because it's just so true,… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The noble Lord, Lord Harrison, said, 'Fox hunting is cruel and I therefore want it banned.' He went on to discuss the… — 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke David Verney Copy Share Image
History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
I’m always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so. — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
The woman frowned. "I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image