Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
Conclusions Quotes
Believing cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgment about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock, but my believing that he did it has nothing to do with whether or not he really did to it. So also with the story […]
In short whoever you may be, To this conclusion you’ll agree, When everyone is somebodee, Then no one’s anybody!
Be not misled by reports or tradition or common opinion. Be not misled by proficiency in the scriptures, nor by speculation and conclusions, nor by attractive theories and favorite ideas, nor by impressions of personal merits (of the teacher) and not by the authority of some master. But rather, Kalamas, when you discern yourselves: these […]
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don’t know why I do things.
Many factors contribute to who we become as human beings: our genes, our maturation, our unique biological potentials and limitations, our life experiences and the conclusions we draw from them, the knowledge and information available to us, and, of course, our premises or philosophical beliefs, and the thinking we choose to do or not to […]
Talk of God leads by a direct road to the conclusion of atheism. The only sensible attitude is to dismiss the idea of God – to get it out of the way of more important ideas. The wide dissemination of this intelligent atheistic attitude is one of the leading features of any program of popular […]
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
