Top 153 Premises Quotes & Sayings

The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.

All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premises about our employment without having the opportunity to verify them.

Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.

It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.

Man's character is the product of his premises.

To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

I've tried to write about Heathrow before and been escorted off the premises.

The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.

I thought then and I think now that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust and I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.

I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.

An effective regulatory system today would be one guided by a few basic premises that can be applied flexibly but also universally.

Ivanka was relentless and was determined to be the First Daughter Lady and to usurp office space out from under Melania; she wanted to be the only visible female Trump on the premises.

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.

What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

All proofs rest on premises.

School lunch should be made fresh on the premises every day. Our children deserve that respect.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.

Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now.

The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.