Suppose Quotes - page 4

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear. (Robert Frost)
Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic. View quote
John Rawls
Indeed, it is tempting to suppose that it is self evident that things should be so arranged so as to lead to the most good. View quote
John Rawls
Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack. View quote
Paul Erdős
I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters. View quote
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know? View quote
Irvine Welsh
There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess. View quote
John Ruskin
What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures. View quote
John Ruskin
Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be." ... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock. View quote
Norman Mailer
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? (David Attenborough)
I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts. View quote
Jane Goodall
I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking. View quote
Guy Ritchie
It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature...but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters: this appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it. View quote
Alan Moore
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization? View quote
William Wilberforce
From now on I'm thinking only of me.” Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way?” "Then,” said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I? View quote
Joseph Heller
It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled. View quote
B. F. Skinner
In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things. (Peter Medawar)
Art deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist) Picabia - gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it. He will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it. View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple. View quote
Paul Scofield
History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised. View quote
Dinah Craik