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supposition
«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 child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.»
Author: Anne Sullivan
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
built up, elaborate, elaborated, idiot, special education, supposition, suspect, systems, up on
«I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.»
Author: Bernard Ingham
| Keywords:
deduction, deductions, distortion, mow, mowed, mowing, mows, press down, Somme, supposition
«Away with the cant of ''Measures, not men!'' / the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.»
Author: George Canning
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| Keywords:
cant, comparatively, harness, supposition, The Cant, The Chariot
«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 can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
caution, cautioned, cautions, exclusion, forbid, indulge, indulges, maintained, morality, national, prevail, principle, religious, supposition, without reasoning
«It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.»
«Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity /namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.»
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
(Founder)
| Keywords:
absurdity, contradiction, erroneous, erroneous belief, evident, existent, faculties, namely, Pleasure and Pain, self evident, standard, substance, supposition, The Standard, unreal, untrue
«It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Jealousy,
Liberty
| Keywords:
abuse, deprive, jealousy, supposition, unjust, unwise
«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 ourselves with the fair sex.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
advanced, ingratiating, supposition, unwillingly