Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues. — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions… — Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Copy Share Image
No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to get out of living where they're living now, because life is a pretty tough proposition and not much fun.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
I have experienced racism in this country. My children have experienced racism in this country. I wouldn't say America is against me.… — James Peterson Copy Share Image
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
