Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Yet what is more awesome: to believe that God created everything in six days, or to believe that the biosphere came into… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
There'd been studies over the years supporting the proposition that groups composed exclusively of women usually made intelligent decisions, that exclusively male… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
This country was founded by men and women who were dedicated or came to be dedicated to two propositions; first, a strong… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
