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
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
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
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
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
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
I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed,… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Tell me a country that is doing well and has a great leader? You look at the nuclear weapons all over the… — Robert Downey, Sr Copy Share Image
He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
This is the problem with the way you educate your children. You don't want your young ones drawing their own conclusions. You… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga… — Osamu Tezuka Copy Share Image
My final conclusion after 40 years or more in this business is that the unofficial policy of the World Health Organization and… — Archie Kalokerinos Copy Share Image
If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
I think two different people can read one of my books and come away with completely different opinions on the subject. I… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
"Who are we to say what is right and what is wrong?" is the common refrain under the doctrine of pure pluralism.… — Benjamin Hart Copy Share Image
The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
From Christ on down to Edison, the men who have achieved most have been those who met with the most stubborn forms… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
God often delays the conclusion of a holy endeavor so that those involved in it might merit its grace by the length… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
A willingness to vocalize feelings. How important it is to be willing to voice one's thoughts and feelings. Yes, how important it… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
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