Quotes on Supposition

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.

..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition that the future will be conformable to the past. .... Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses.

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.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; that it is a hypothetical body, a gratuitous supposition; indeed, it is in the principles of good logic, not to multiply bodies without necessity.

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.