I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and comes to all sorts of conclusions.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.