Supposing That Quotes

• 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 rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

  Mary Douglas

  Jealousy, Believe, Frustration

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• Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

  William Ralph Inge

  Honesty, Policy, Supposing

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• 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

  Book, Light, Political

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• 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 of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, Writing, Media

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• 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

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Mistake

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• For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Artist, Men, Giving

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

  David Ricardo

  Errors, Consumption, Greater

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• Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?

  Neal Stephenson

  Ordinary, Relation, Binary

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.254, Spectra

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• 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.

  Aldo Leopold

  Spiritual, Two, Breakfast

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.6, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Honesty is always the best policy.

  George Washington

  Honesty, Candor, Openness

  George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.46, New York : J. Wiley

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• There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

  Thomas Paine

  Islands, Absurd, Continents

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Philosophy, Believe

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "On the Value of Scepticism"

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• 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, supposing it to be new.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Science, Forever, Attention

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• 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 the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements.

  D. W. Griffith

  Giving, Acting, Actresses

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• 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 that cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat. The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our available tools of analysis.

  Douglas Adams

  Cat, Hands, Trying

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• 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.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Zero, May, Way

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.199, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money to be true.

  Paul Ormerod

  Order, Might, Awful

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth Is, Supposing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.192, Modern Library

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• You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why Not Try God?", Chapter 6 (newspaper serial) in St. Petersburg Times, sect. 2, p. 3, news.google.com. January 25, 1936.

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• Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

  Gertrude Stein

  Strings, Beans, Universal

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• Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

  Mark Twain

  Learning, Science, Design

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Thinking, Wish

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "On the Value of Scepticism"

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• 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.

  Thomas Paine

  Islands, Care, Kingdoms

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.40

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• 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.

  A. A. Milne

  Tree, Piglet, Said

  Milne, George, Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), Shepard, Ernest H. (1977). “The World of Pooh : the Complete Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner”, McClelland and Stewart, 1989

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• 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 would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, People, Intellectual

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.460

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