Premises Quotes
82 quotes by 68 authors
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What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but…
— Russell Baker
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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
— Samuel Butler
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I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was…
— Jimmy Carter
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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
— Mark Twain
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Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and…
— Albert Einstein
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The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now…
— Hugh Miller
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A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more…
— Albert Einstein
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...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation…
— George C. Edwards III
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Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are…
— Andre-Marie Ampere
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When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over…
— Arthur M. Wellington
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...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this DNA evidence and…
— Werner Gitt
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Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was due to bad…
— Edward Snowden
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Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think…
— Ayn Rand
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To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more…
— Karl Popper
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Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
— William Zinsser
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It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort…
— Nick Cave
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