When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience,… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Baby, after considerable thought I've reached the conclusion that the only conceivable legitimate answer to the Universe as constituted is a peal… — Keith Laumer Copy Share Image
In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence,… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will… — Hedwig Dohm Copy Share Image
We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties of politics is that politicians are shocked by those who are really prepared to let their thinking reach… — Richard Crossman Copy Share Image
Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have an end in mind, but it's always false, always corny, just a dumb idea anyone could have, sitting on… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
There's another way to edit the sentence, which is to add a comma before the second 'which.' The survivor is struggling toward… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
In Christ, troubles are turned into triumph, so in Him we look at what is coming as the times of the greatest… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There is no other course but the one we have chosen, except the course of humiliation and darkness, after which there will… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable. — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions. — Roger Chamberlain Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image