Quotes by Supposing That For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival. Wilfrid Sheed artistsupposing-thatmen The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience. William Kingdon Clifford supposing-thatgivingpast Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. William Ralph Inge policyhonestysupposing-that«123
