Every president, Democratic or Republican, simply works on the supposition that it's better to keep jobs in America than let them go… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out… — Sarah Fielding 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
This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no… — George Steiner 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
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural,… — David Fontana Copy Share Image
..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I couldn't possibly tell you. But I would say be very careful with your suppositions. People are so quick to jump. That's… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these… — René Descartes 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
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
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
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
If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely… — Antoine Lavoisier 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 am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition… — Anne Sullivan Macy 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
“What does the world know? Nothing! You simply get used to something, you accept it and acknowledge it, because your teacher has… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the… — George Canning Copy Share Image
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is the way things are supposed to be but it doesn't feel right” — Stephen Chbosky 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
The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see… — David Bellos Copy Share Image
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of… — Arthur Oncken Lovejoy Copy Share Image
Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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