Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal. — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
We took a fair bit of liberty with the story, but the basic premise of the film ["Selling Isobel" ] - a… — Rudolf Buitendach Copy Share Image
But, in truth, the existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The footprint on the sand… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I've spoken seriously, and I am very serious, but you know an awful lot of the work is meant to twist things… — Douglas Huebler Copy Share Image
All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many,… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through… — Philip K. Jason Copy Share Image
Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim… — Ezra Jack Keats Copy Share Image
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed. — Al Swearengen Copy Share Image
The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted. — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The church generation in which Jesus returns will actively participate in this revolution. ... My premise: Many people alive today will see… — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
I got a hotel room at New York New York in Las Vegas and I was very happy. They've got that rollercoaster… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image