Top 625 Grounds Quotes & Sayings

Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?

Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons which he suggests for making the recommended bet on his particular faith are reasons in the sense of motives rather than reasons in the sense of grounds. Conceding, if only for the sake of the present argument, that we can have no knowledge here, Pascal tries to justify as prudent a policy of systematic self-persuasion, rather than to provide grounds for thinking that the beliefs recommended are actually true.

The starting-point and chief principle of every science, and hence of theology also, is not only methodical doubt, but positive doubt. One can believe only what one has perceived to be true from reasonable grounds, and consequently one must have the courage to continue doubting until one has found reliable grounds to satisfy the reason.

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no deterrent effect, and people who like the death penalty on grounds of retribution tend to think it has deterrent effects. They like that, and they believe that. I think with climate change we're seeing very much the same thing where those who deny climate change, they don't like that, and they don't believe it.

We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

I think the physicality of being an athlete or working out, it grounds you. It centers you.

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described in scientific terms. . . . On philosophical grounds too I cannot see any good reason for preferring the big bang idea. Indeed it seems to me in the philosophical sense to be a distinctly unsatisfactory notion, since it puts the basic assumption out of sight where it can never be challenged by a direct appeal to observation.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

When I got to Mumbai, I missed the Delhi parks and grounds.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the hemispheres and of human sensibilities into equilibrium with those grounds.

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

To come out here and play on Woodstock grounds, first year ever headlining on the main stage there's nothing more iconic. [Mysteryland] is one of those festivals that holds down the legacy of dance music it's been around for so many years. It's been part of what we do for so long. It kinda makes sense to bring the tradition over here to America. The festival grounds of Woodstock, that's pretty epic.

Wherever I go, God rules. When I walk on White House grounds, God walks on White House grounds. I have every right and authority to declare the White House holy ground, because I was standing there and where I stand is holy.

We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.

The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.

Pune is one of my favorite grounds.

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

No one can be considered untouchable on political grounds.

He who have two grounds of trust is lost!

Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality.

Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

Millions of Americans are denied the privilege of driving on health grounds.

Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home.

Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background.

On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.

There are no grounds for discrimination in Europe, regardless of whether on grounds of gender, sexual orientation, or religion. On the other hand, there is equally no place for radical thought and political Islam.

Chicago is old stomping grounds for me.

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

I disagree with those who suggest that we permanently close down the U.S. mail on the grounds that it can kill you. That is sheer hysteria. I think we should permanently close down the U.S. mail on the grounds that it has been making us sick for quite a while.

When we care about people, we sometimes overstep our grounds.

There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.

Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.

For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.

Family is what grounds you.

Nothing grounds you like a real authentic Mexican taco.