Quotes about Assumption

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise. Votes: 4

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. Votes: 4

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong. Votes: 4

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. Votes: 4

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. Votes: 4

Don't make assumptions. Votes: 3

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. Votes: 3

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up. Votes: 3

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. Votes: 3

Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around. Votes: 3

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. Votes: 3

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man. Votes: 3

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption. Votes: 3

Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Votes: 3

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter. Votes: 3

Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin. Votes: 3

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. Votes: 3

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. Votes: 3

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them. Votes: 3

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong. Votes: 3

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. Votes: 3

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used. Votes: 3

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. Votes: 3

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections. Votes: 3

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. Votes: 3

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people. Votes: 3

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men. Votes: 3

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. Votes: 3

The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar. Votes: 3

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. Votes: 3

If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels. Votes: 3

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. Votes: 3

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. Votes: 1

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else. Votes: 1

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. Votes: 1

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. Votes: 1

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back. Votes: 1

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses. Votes: 1

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.' Votes: 1

It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California. Votes: 1

A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged. Votes: 1

When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's when you don't prepare for a tough battle, when you're caught flat-footed, that you're vulnerable. Votes: 1

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch. Votes: 1

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods. Votes: 1

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began. Votes: 1

When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around. Votes: 1

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption. Votes: 1

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. Votes: 1

All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.' Votes: 1

There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. Votes: 1

Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter in Florida, and in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles song to the North Star (Polaris), on the assumption that any putative Polarians would appreciate the Fab Four's 1960s-genre compositions. Votes: 1

Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you to previously dark places. Just as the sun shines earlier and longer in the spring, changes that seemed impossible appear to be possible with each new insight into your own health. Votes: 1

There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do. Votes: 1

Sometimes experience trumps assumption. Votes: 0

Ignorance is brought about by assumption. Votes: 0

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority Votes: 0

The bad-boy label is just an assumption. Votes: 0

An assumption is the joke; truth the punchline. Votes: 0

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility. Votes: 0

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Votes: 0

The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science. Votes: 0

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle. Votes: 0

The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation. Votes: 0

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you. Votes: 0

It is always better to ask then to make an assumption. Votes: 0

Meet every person with the assumption that they are your equal. Votes: 0

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption. Votes: 0

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption. Votes: 0

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes. Votes: 0

You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made. Votes: 0

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it. Votes: 0

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged. Votes: 0

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception. Votes: 0

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do Votes: 0

You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption Votes: 0

It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption Votes: 0

There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic. Votes: 0

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry. Votes: 0

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge. Votes: 0

The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean. Votes: 0

To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption. Votes: 0

Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay. Votes: 0

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making. Votes: 0

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. Votes: 0

Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration. Votes: 0

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven. Votes: 0

If you assume you are better than someone,you make yourself relies on that assumption. Votes: 0

Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home. Votes: 0

we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments Votes: 0

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. Votes: 0

The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence. Votes: 0

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. Votes: 0

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom. Votes: 0

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. Votes: 0

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world. Votes: 0

The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy! Votes: 0

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. Votes: 0

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read. Votes: 0

Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists. Votes: 0

We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older. Votes: 0

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption. Votes: 0

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. Votes: 0

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. Votes: 0

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. Votes: 0

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable. Votes: 0

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. Votes: 0

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. Votes: 0

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life. Votes: 0

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. Votes: 0

I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment. Votes: 0

There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever. Votes: 0

Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship. Votes: 0

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability. Votes: 0

Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases. Votes: 0

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning? Votes: 0

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. Votes: 0

Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption. Votes: 0

Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream. Votes: 0

Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises. Votes: 0

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. Votes: 0

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track. Votes: 0

It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop. Votes: 0

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. Votes: 0

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good. Votes: 0

What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things. Votes: 0

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt. Votes: 0

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Votes: 0

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now. Votes: 0

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other. Votes: 0

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant. Votes: 0

It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy. Votes: 0

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true. Votes: 0

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron. Votes: 0

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success. Votes: 0

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man. Votes: 0

The process of thinking is a way of analyzing and making the right assumption at the right moment in life. Votes: 0

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them. Votes: 0

Speaker says psychology has commandeered "everything hard" and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological Votes: 0

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so. Votes: 0

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties. Votes: 0

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention. Votes: 0

The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative. Votes: 0

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world. Votes: 0

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right. Votes: 0

Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment. Votes: 0

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. Votes: 0

Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled. Votes: 0

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything? Votes: 0

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. Votes: 0

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth. Votes: 0

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped. Votes: 0

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so. Votes: 0

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong. Votes: 0

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong. Votes: 0

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this. Votes: 0

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption. Votes: 0

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. Votes: 0

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. Votes: 0

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection Votes: 0

Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient! Votes: 0

Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not! Votes: 0

I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave. Votes: 0

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me. Votes: 0

The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers. Votes: 0

There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way. Votes: 0

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? Votes: 0

The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. Votes: 0

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting. Votes: 0

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it. Votes: 0

It's "a 'disorder of "assumption"' - the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically. Votes: 0

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection Votes: 0

The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous. Votes: 0

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation. Votes: 0

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners. Votes: 0

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same. Votes: 0

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk. Votes: 0

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. Votes: 0

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class. Votes: 0

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.... Votes: 0

We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine. Votes: 0

It's "a 'disorder of "assumption"' - the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically. Votes: 0

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence. Votes: 0

There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't. Votes: 0

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious. Votes: 0

It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct. Votes: 0

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle. Votes: 0

The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation. Votes: 0

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption. Votes: 0

I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface. Votes: 0

The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety. Votes: 0

I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God. Votes: 0

My lazy, unfair assumption is that everything's easier when you're young and stunning. And maybe it is! But I'd like to see for myself. Votes: 0

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter. Votes: 0

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels. Votes: 0

Kyoya: I don't like this food. But do you think I'd be so inhuman as to complain after you treated me? That's a rude assumption. Votes: 0

The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War. Votes: 0

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he? Votes: 0

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love ... Votes: 0

The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment. Votes: 0

Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea Votes: 0

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth. Votes: 0

Every generation thinks they invented sex, which is the stupidest assumption in the world because if that was the case, you wouldn't even be here. Votes: 0

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Votes: 0

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places. Votes: 0

After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper. Votes: 0

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction. Votes: 0

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption. Votes: 0

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over? Votes: 0

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior. Votes: 0

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe. Votes: 0

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing. Votes: 0

One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists. Votes: 0

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we'll always have more to give. Votes: 0

There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture. Votes: 0

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be. Votes: 0

People are under the assumption that the kundalini just flows from the base of the spine up. That's not the case at all. Kundalini also flows downward. Votes: 0

It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel. Votes: 0

There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs. Votes: 0

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities. Votes: 0

The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them. Votes: 0

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations. Votes: 0

We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business. Votes: 0

I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again. Votes: 0

People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation. Votes: 0

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen. Votes: 0

My assumption is I'm not going to be recognized. But when I am, I'm like, "Dang, you know who I am?" I always think I look so different. Votes: 0

You leave nothing to assumption," Dory Maud says. "You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's any of her left for the rest of us to see. Votes: 0

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one Votes: 0

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power. Votes: 0

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past. Votes: 0

I'm making the assumption that after Mrs. Obama leaves the White House that she will continue all of her work toward improving education in this nation and childhood health. Votes: 0

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified. Votes: 0

Sadly, I don't think books ever sell based on your name alone - the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong! Votes: 0

I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct a sentence. I find that enjoyable work. Votes: 0

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming. Votes: 0

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption. Votes: 0

My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge - and maybe even stronger. Votes: 0

I hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing I am choosing to be with that person. Votes: 0

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted. Votes: 0

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction. Votes: 0

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized. Votes: 0

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work. Votes: 0

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic. Votes: 0

I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse. Votes: 0

What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government. Votes: 0

I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists. Votes: 0

A weakness of the random-walk model lies in its assumption of instantaneous adjustment, whereas the information impelling a stock market toward its "intrinsic value" gradually becomes disseminated throughout the market place. Votes: 0

The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination to be useful, self-sufficient, and productive. Votes: 0

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding. Votes: 0

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong. Votes: 0

Only recently has part of America challenged the long-held assumption that America is a Christian nation. Most citizens do not recognize just how quickly we have moved in an anti-Christian direction. Votes: 0

America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent. Votes: 0

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice. Votes: 0

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness. Votes: 0

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols. Votes: 0

If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them. Votes: 0

Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith . Votes: 0

In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to lose friends; he has to risk his life. Votes: 0

I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there. Votes: 0

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues. Votes: 0

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that this world is a world worth living in. Votes: 0

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman. Votes: 0

In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds. Votes: 0

Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus. Votes: 0

The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang. Votes: 0

I think people see the social media numbers, and the assumption is made that we're running a campaign that is just social media, but I think we're running a very old-school campaign. Votes: 0

The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go. Votes: 0

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children. Votes: 0

Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism. Votes: 0

The throbbing habits of assumption tinted with malice lead to decisions and actions that drum out faith, trust and respect towards a crashing carelessness and uselessness. Be effective by discarding sneaking suspicions. Votes: 0

The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth. Votes: 0

The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current assumption that Americans now live in a democratic, post-racial society. Votes: 0

PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING PEOPLE DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU!! IT'S BECAUSE OF THEMSELVES!! Votes: 0

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries. Votes: 0

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right. Votes: 0

Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority. Votes: 0

Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance. Votes: 0

The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast. Votes: 0

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders. Votes: 0

It is a dangerous assumption to say that people who drain energy "don't know what they are doing." People are sophisticated aware beings. Don't sit around and equivocate; they'll drain you more. Votes: 0

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed. Votes: 0

Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate the next change in paradigm for human thought. Votes: 0

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did. Votes: 0

Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art. Votes: 0

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.... Votes: 0

At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent. Votes: 0

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change. Votes: 0

I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to hit me. And I ride on that assumption. Votes: 0

There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is. Votes: 0

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God. Votes: 0

People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health. Votes: 0

The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient. Votes: 0

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over. Votes: 0

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake. Votes: 0

Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do. Votes: 0

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance Votes: 0

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. Votes: 0

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance. Votes: 0

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question. Votes: 0

My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong. Votes: 0

The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them. Votes: 0

The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams. Votes: 0

Arbitrary government power is being multiplied daily by the now practically unchallenged assumption that wherever there is any problem of any kind to be solved, government is the agency to step in and solve it. Votes: 0

It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities, Votes: 0

It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale. Votes: 0