Keith Jackson Quotes

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

If you would judge, understand.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Don't confuse evidence with a conclusion.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

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.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

I know all the critics.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

It is very difficult for us to assess intent, so we have to work back from actions.

Estimation, assessment, looking back, retrospecting things - those are intellectual concepts, and they're always so subject to shifts in the wind.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

I don't analyze things like titles.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.