Suppose Quotes

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. View quote
John Steinbeck
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. View quote
Mark Twain
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. View quote
Arthur Miller
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. View quote
Charles Lamb
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. View quote
Ezra Pound
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. (Edmund Burke)
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows. View quote
Robert Frost
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. View quote
Neil Gaiman
I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. View quote
James Baldwin
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. View quote
David Bohm
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. View quote
William Cowper
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. (Hilaire Belloc)
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. View quote
William Blake
I don't suppose that applies so much to other physicists; I think it's a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don't have any physical meaning at all. Sometimes they do. View quote
Paul Dirac
It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. View quote
Joseph Conrad