List Of 23+ Supposing That Quotes

Supposing A Tree Fell Down, Pooh, When We Were Underneath It?' 'supposing It Didn't,' Said Pooh After Careful Thought. Piglet Was Comforted By This.

There Is Something Absurd In Supposing A Continent To Be Perpetually Governed By An Island.

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 A Continent To Be Perpetually Governed By An Island.

There Can Be No Greater Error Then In Supposing That Capital Is Increased By Non-consumption.

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 If There Were One Ideal Pattern For Society, It Could Be Arrived At In An A Priori Fashion. And Even Supposing That Some Great Genius Did Come Along With A Blueprint, Who Could Have The Confidence That It Could Work

Supposing Truth Is A Woman -- What Then?

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 Hypotheses The Phaenomena Of Light Have Been Hitherto Explain'd By Supposing That They Arise From New Modifications Of The Rays; Which Is An Erroneous Supposition.

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, One Can Reach This Place Directly. The Beauty Of The Mountain Reveals Only To Those Who Climbed It.

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 This: That It Is Undesirable To Believe A Proposition When There Is No Ground Whatever For Supposing It True.

Some Have Paid Me An Undeserved Compliment By Supposing That My Letters Were The Ripe Fruit Of Many Years' Study In Moral And Ascetic Theology. They Forgot That There Is An Equally Reliable, Though Less Creditable, Way Of Learning How Temptation Works.

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 That Heat Comes From The Furnace.

If I Am Right In Supposing It To Be Comparatively Easy To Make Capital-goods So Abundant That The Marginal Efficiency Of Capital Is Zero, This May Be The Most Sensible Way Of Gradually Getting Rid Of Many Of The Objectionable Features Of Capitalism.