That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise.… — Giles Fraser Copy Share Image
Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs… — Ricardo Semler 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 question the premise that digital is necessarily the enemy of traditional media. In many ways, it presents us with enormous opportunities. — Scott McDonald Copy Share Image
The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents. — David Brin Copy Share Image
“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We act, we behave, and we feel the vibration that we're in at the present time according to what we consider our… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
We have to create a process which has legitimacy for the people of Syria. And we have to have a process where… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Democrats are unified under the premise of total political annihilation. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social. — Peter Kinderman Copy Share Image
The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen! — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
"Straight Edge" was a song about my life. There was no structure, no premise as if I was forming a club. There… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image