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Letter "P" » premise
«Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
conclusions, discern, discerns, draw, premise, premised, premises, unknown
«If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe»
«American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.»
Author: Jon Newman
| About:
America and Americans,
Liberty
| Keywords:
accountability, premise, premised
«Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Education,
Information,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
information, liberating, premise, premised
«I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
confirmation, confirmations, limiting, negate, negated, negating, on the contrary, premise
«Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.»
Author: William Zinsser
| Keywords:
basic, brevity, clarity, premise, premised, premises, simplicity
«Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
check, checking, check in, Check it out, check up on, contradiction, contradictions, exist, facing, in check, one of them, premise, premised, premises
«All proofs rest on premises»
«A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
applicability, extended, extend to, impressive, kinds, premise, premised, premises, range, ranged, ranging, relates, simplicity, theory, The Range
«Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Facts
| Keywords:
conclusions, premise, premised, premises
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