The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit. — David Hume Copy Share Image
When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Energy healing is based on the supposition that illness results from disturbances in the body's energies and energy fields and can be… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It isn't very logical to live my life on goundless supposition. I have to assume the truth of the moment is the… — Jacquelyn Frank Copy Share Image
A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also… — Thomas Blundeville Copy Share Image
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he… — Andreas Osiander Copy Share Image
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. George… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Given that we are passing the climate change bill, which is based on the supposition that the climate is getting warmer, let… — Peter Lilley Copy Share Image
