Drawing Conclusions Quotes

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.

Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.

I will never speculate on data. I always need to see data.

I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own experience. And even trained minds, when all their training is on a special subject, and does not extend to the general principles of induction, are only kept right when there are ready opportunities of verifying their inferences by facts.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not interested in making conclusions. I would never think about myself or anyone else, 'Well, this happened, this happened, this happened, so this must be the result.' It doesn't work like that with me.

I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important.

I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

The phrase that I use a lot is you've got to connect the dots and keep connecting them up to the finish.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

If one does not forget one's previous experience, one can learn for the future from the past.

We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

You have to put together bits and pieces of information before you can draw overall conclusions.