Supposition Quotes

57 Supposition quotes by 47 unique authors

Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy… — Edwin Lefevre
The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have… — Edwin Lefevre
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in… — David Bellos
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative… — James Gould Cozzens
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the… — George Washington
Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also Copernicus by way… — Thomas Blundeville
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
Energy healing is based on the supposition that illness results from disturbances in the body's energies and energy fields and can be addressed via interventions… — Jed Diamond
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed… — Thomas B. Macaulay
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child… — Anne Sullivan Macy
Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which confessedly… — John Stuart Mill
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim… — Charles Caleb Colton
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered… — Plato
Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and… — William Shakespeare
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — Walter Darby Bannard
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and… — Bill Vaughan
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt,… — George Steiner
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating… — Samuel Johnson
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every… — Anne Sullivan Macy
The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather… — Lysander Spooner
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality… — George Washington
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. — George Washington
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most… — George Eliot
In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long… — Benjamin Franklin

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