



Sufficient Conclusions from Insufficient Premises — Samuel Butler Quote T-Shirt
The text says “we need to talk.” By the time you call back, you’ve written the whole conversation in your head. It was about dinner plans.
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
— Samuel Butler
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, ed. Henry Festing Jones, 1912. Ch. I, “Lord, What is Man?” We check every line against a primary source.
Butler carried a notebook from early in life. “One’s thoughts fly so fast that one must shoot them,” he wrote; “it is no use trying to put salt on their tails.”
The pair of letters that flips sufficient to insufficient is set apart from every other word.
Wear it the next time you catch yourself filling in the blanks.
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