Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions."
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Robert Anton Wilson
Author, Philosopher
"In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time."
George Santayana
Philosopher, Poet
"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong."
Kofi Annan
Diplomat, Politician
"If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you're siding with this wrong."
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"When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you."
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"The conclusion does not belong to the artist."
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"We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn."
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"I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering."
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"What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact."
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"I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead."
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"As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions."
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"Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen."
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"Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions."
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"Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct."
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"We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously."
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"Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn."
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"In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast."
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"Make sure what you do is a product of your own conclusion."
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"Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions."
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"The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form."
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"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued."
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"Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable."
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"The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones."
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"My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all."
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