“Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there… — Mark Zupan 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
I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny.… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself. — Puggy Pearson Copy Share Image
Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be… — Catharine Macaulay Copy Share Image
You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn't make mockery of my values. That's what… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien… — Stanton T. Friedman Copy Share Image
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
There are different interpretations of the problem of universals. I understand it as the problem of giving the truthmakers of propositions to… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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