Suppositions Quotes

#1. With barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises

Jane Austen

#2. The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a form of questioning.

Pattiann Rogers

#3. It is almost possible to sum up the whole process of thinking as the occurrence of suggestions for the solution of difficulties and the testing out of those suggestions. The suggestions or suppositions are tested by observation,memory, experiment.

Henry Hazlitt

#4. The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. There are facts. There are suppositions. There are beliefs. Learn to keep them separate, Sergeant. All men die. Fact. Death may not be the end. Supposition. There's pie in the sky when you die. Belief.

P.D. James

#6. Do you suppose I would learn you the way a scholar learns a book? That you are nothing to me but a collection of suppositions, to be stored in my memory and written down for verification? No, Margaret. I know you.

Courtney Milan

#7. 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 movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

Plato

#8. It is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#9. We may be touched by the most powerful of suppositions--even to a certainty--as we stand in the rose petals of the sun and hear a murmur from the wind no louder than the sound it makes as it dozes under the bee's wings. This, too, I suggest, is the weather, and worthy of report.

Mary Oliver

#10. Septon Barth's claim that the Valyrians came to Westeros because their priests prophesied that the Doom of Man would come out of the land beyond the narrow sea can safely be dismissed as nonsense, as can many of Barth's queerer beliefs and suppositions.

George R R Martin

#11. Bud's relationship with the female sex was governed by a gallimaufry of primal impulses, dim suppositions, deranged theories, overheard scraps of conversation, half-remembered pieces of bad advice, and fragments of no-doubt exaggerated anecdotes that amounted to rank superstition.

Neal Stephenson

#12. It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also.

Carl Jung

#13. I do not mind at all that [Newton] is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

Christiaan Huygens

#14. It is not important what happens where;
Where we fall or rise,
What we conquer or lose,
How big or small we are.

Dejan Stojanovic

#15. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#16. Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

L.M. Montgomery

#17. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brinkley

#18. Maybe we were the Diggers of literature.

Wallace Stegner

#19. If we just stick to one kind of music, our creativity is limited. We wanted to extend the audience for the cello, especially the younger people, and to show them how cool and how powerful and how diverse the cello can be.

Stjepan Hauser

#20. I succeeded by following the same method, which consists in regarding the problem as solved and deducing from the solution all logical consequences.

Rene Daumal

#21. I never used golf as a job. I used it as a game. I always thought if I played the game well, my financial rewards would be there, but it came from, because I played well. But I had to play well to get the financial rewards.

Jack Nicklaus

#22. Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

Antonio Damasio