Supposing Quotes

74 quotes by 64 authors

In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge our obligations to… — Marion G. Romney
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. — Lydia M. Child
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social… — Karl Pearson
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is… — Bertrand Russell
There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We… — C.S. Lewis
If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are… — Charles Scott Sherrington
There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish… — E. T. Whittaker
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true — Bertrand Russell
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a… — Jonathan Swift
Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even… — Robert Nozick
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain… — Thomas Jefferson
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left,… — Maurice Chevalier
There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. — Thomas Paine
People help each other through a crisis by each supposing that the other can handle it better than he himself can. — Frank A. Clark
The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our… — John Stott
Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and… — Maria Montessori
Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that… — Lee Kuan Yew
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events.… — William Kingdon Clifford
The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention,… — Calvin Coolidge

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