Conclusions Quotes

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don’t.

Nothing between human beings is one to three. In fact, I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

Two men examining the same question proceed commonly like the physician and gardener in selecting herbs, or the farmer and hero looking on the plain; they bring minds impressed with different notions, and direct their enquiries to different ends; they form, therefore, contrary conclusions, and each wonders at the other’s absurdity.

Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation… and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel […]

There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, showing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to […]

Please be good enough to put your conclusions and recommendations on one sheet of paper in the very beginning of your report, so I can even consider reading it.

Many people reach their conclusions about life like lazy school children. They copy the answers from the back of the book without troubling to work out the sum for themselves.