The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The moral is that in trading it's important to examine the situation from as many angles as possible, because your initial impulses… — Jeff Yass Copy Share Image
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
On that day, we couldn't reach the conclusion whose hero is the strongest. And today when we are 41 years old, we… — Kim Do-Jin Copy Share Image
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence uses a complex set of rules - algorithms - to get to a conclusion. A computer has to calculate its… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion,… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it is… — David Kay Copy Share Image
The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a "here" and a "there," but to an extension such as that which… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been. . .by… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite… — Halton Arp Copy Share Image
I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
A decade ago, I really did believe that the average investor could do it himself. I was wrong. I've come to the… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“It had taken him a few months to figure out that they were right for each other, but now that conclusion seemed… — Chessela Helm Copy Share Image
The man who is wantonly profuse of his promises ought to sink his credit as much as a tradesman would by uttering… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
“I put complains aside and replace each of them with trials and to my surprise, some things I see as difficult were… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I would not draw definitive conclusions from that. If we look at South and North Korea, it is pretty hard to believe… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
For more than a century, people have often thought that the conclusion to draw from Darwin's vision is that Homo sapiens, our… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Until kids decide, 'I am a miracle. I am unique. There is no one else exactly like me,' they can never draw… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image