Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My work with churches has led me to the conclusion that the single most important element in having an effective and life-changing… — Phil Pringle Copy Share Image
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more… — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the… — David Hume 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
Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a fight on… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I'd get very empirical with myself. "I have a hypothesis about myself. I'll put myself in a situation,… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
The Jews started it all-and by 'it' I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
From the point of view of logic, my report on 'Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics' has no conclusion. I believe that it… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I believe there are a lot of questions today that require expert analysis by various agencies: political agencies, foreign ministries, economic agencies… — Vladimir Putin 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image