Supposing Quotes

74 Supposing quotes by 63 unique authors

Unconscious of the existence of Tao, beings live supposing themselves to be separate from the universal intelligence, supposing themselves to be powerful or to be… — Frederick Lenz
But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such… — Robin McKinley
We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly… — Malcolm Muggeridge
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid… — Howard Zinn
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. — William Ralph Inge
Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life — Leo Tolstoy
Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these… — Isaac Newton
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. — Robert M. Hutchins
One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take… — Douglas Adams
The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should… — Simone Weil
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake… — Marshall McLuhan
Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to… — D W Griffith
Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there… — Edgar Allan Poe
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract… — Ada Lovelace
There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere,… — Hubert Butler
Supposing we knew that up there is some alien civilization and it's sending radio signals our way we should not tell the public where that… — Paul Davies
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand… — Mary Douglas
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. — Gertrude Stein
Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices… — Lewis Carroll
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing… — Thomas Paine
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other… — Aldo Leopold
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than… — Samuel Johnson
Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and… — Tasha Tudor
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being? — Neal Stephenson

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