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

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

Common sense got drunk and giddy when Olivia was on the premises. Maybe he should just raise a glass, too, and dub reason a lost cause. — Kelly Moran

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

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

Hoax needed to complete the premises of truth. — Toba Beta

Now when a man is as right as that in his forecasts, there is some reason to think he may be right in his premises. — Frank Sheed

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

I was the first to make it understood
that reason could undermine the just premises of the good. — Aristophanes

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

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

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

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

If you found enough cat hairs in a person's house, you pretty much had to assume there was a feline on the premises somewhere — Stephen King

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

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves. — Zygmunt Bauman

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

There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth. — U.G. Krishnamurti

My God died young. Theolatry i found
Degrading, and its premises, unsound.
No free man needs God; but was I free? — Vladimir Nabokov

Start with a premise and then somehow invert it. — William Wegman

All mathematical proofs must be deductive. Each proof is a chain of deductive arguments, each of which has its premises and conclusion. — Morris Kline

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

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. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

A system must necessarily be based on premises that by its very nature it cannot question. — Walter Kaufmann

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

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

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. — John Updike

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be ... — Pearl S. Buck

No one is so sure of his premises as the man who knows too little. — Barbara W. Tuchman

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

Man's character is the product of his premises. — Ayn Rand

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

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. — Alfred North Whitehead

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

The smallest thing in this universe is an intelligent living creature.
He sets himself to be imaginary in the premises of arrogant scientist. — Toba Beta

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

I'm away for a while. But there's no cash on the premises, no drugs, and the pitbull's tested positive. Twice. — William Gibson

The human heart operates from two premises: "I Am Responsible" and "Only Love Works. — Swami Dhyan Giten

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

Before taking his leave of a premises, the dustman would request either beer or a tip for his trouble, quaintly known in the trade as 'sparrows'. — Lee Jackson

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. — Harland Williams

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. — Nick Hornby

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

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. — Jimmy Carter

Anything, anything at all can be logical. For something to be logical, it just has to be a valid example of reasoning from some set of premises. — Mark C. Chu-Carroll

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it. — George Soros

But the pill did nothing, probably expired like everything else on the premises. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

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