Inferred Quotes
27 quotes by 24 authors
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to…
— Herbert Spencer
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Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are…
— John Stuart Mill
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Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body…
— Michael Shermer
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As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot…
— James Hutton
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The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation,…
— George Washington
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the…
— John Stuart Mill
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According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal physiological function for…
— John Dye
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Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of…
— Jerome Bruner
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Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if…
— Edwin A. Abbott
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From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from…
— David Hume
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Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not…
— Samuel Johnson
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In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the…
— Rene Descartes
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No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or more…
— Iamblichus
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Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.
— George Armitage Miller
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But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect…
— Nassau William Senior
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No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is to be inferred…
— Chanakya
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Education, especially business education will only give you tools. What you do with these tools is all that matters. Life and business isn’t paint by…
— Gene Simmons
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and…
— John Stuart Mill
Who Wrote These Inferred Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 27 Inferred Quotes as follows: