The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion.
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.
Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.
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 […]
