Quotes about Assumptions (271 quotes)

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late. Votes: 4

Bryan Davis

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Assumptions are dangerous things. Votes: 3

Agatha Christie

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Assumptions are the termites of relationships. Votes: 3

Henry Winkler

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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct. Votes: 3

Walter Darby Bannard

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Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong. Votes: 3

Albert Einstein

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Assumptions are what we don't know we are making Votes: 3

Douglas Adams

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Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making. Votes: 3

Douglas Adams

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Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. Votes: 3

John Sayles

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Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better. Votes: 3

David Baldacci

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People, please remember that I choose my words very carefully. Assumptions are your enemy. Votes: 3

Chris Kluwe

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Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity. Votes: 3

bell hooks

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A lion of truth never assumes anything without validity. Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother. Votes: 3

Suzy Kassem

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Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble. Votes: 3

Daniel Handler

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The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to anotherâ¦.No. It wasnât dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact. Votes: 3

Lynn Margulis

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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

Don Miguel Ruiz

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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

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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Differences challenge assumptions. Votes: 1

Anne Wilson Schaef

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You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. Votes: 1

Denis Waitley

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. Votes: 1

William Lyon Phelps

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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions. Votes: 1

Noam Chomsky

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There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting. Votes: 1

Craig Stevens

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Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue. Votes: 1

Julian Baggini

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When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality. Votes: 1

Emily Levine

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. Votes: 1

George Bernard Shaw

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Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in. Votes: 1

Alan Alda

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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in. Votes: 1

Alan Alda

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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. Votes: 1

David Brin

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The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions. Votes: 1

Alonzo Church

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The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free. Votes: 1

Rupert Sheldrake

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All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations. Votes: 1

Henry Petroski

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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. Votes: 1

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. Votes: 1

John W. Gardner

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Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation. Votes: 1

John Spratt

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Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves. Votes: 1

Kavita Ramdas

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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque. Votes: 1

Eddie Vedder

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Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment. Votes: 1

Noam Chomsky

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People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce. Votes: 1

Jeremy Hunt

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We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality. Votes: 1

Ann Richards

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It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different. Votes: 1

Christopher Meloni

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Tullian Tchividjian

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Don't make assumptions. Votes: 0

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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Test everything, including assumptions Votes: 0

Jeffrey Zeldman

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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions Votes: 0

Cornel West

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I challenge assumptions about women. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton

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Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous. Votes: 0

Peter Drucker

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Progress is a set of assumptions. Votes: 0

Edward Albee

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I welcome questions. I hate assumptions. Votes: 0

Red Haircrow

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Beware of economists who hide assumptions. Votes: 0

Anat R. Admati

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Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions. Votes: 0

Frank Herbert

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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. Votes: 0

Marshall McLuhan

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Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions. Votes: 0

Geoff Tate

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The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable. Votes: 0

Paul Broca

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Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions. Votes: 0

Laura Busche

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Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre. Votes: 0

Milton Friedman

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Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions. Votes: 0

Laurie R. King

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You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues. Votes: 0

Adam Clayton

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I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions. Votes: 0

Rex Stout

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The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts. Votes: 0

Russell L. Ackoff

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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions. Votes: 0

Gautam Adani

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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. Votes: 0

Will Durant

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Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world. Votes: 0

Aaron Huey

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Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. Votes: 0

Salman Rushdie

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I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions. Votes: 0

Steven Rodney McQueen

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It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind. Votes: 0

Sebastian Thrun

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The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions. Votes: 0

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. Votes: 0

William of Ockham

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One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions. Votes: 0

Simon Pegg

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Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong. Votes: 0

Ashleigh Brilliant

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The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. Votes: 0

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions. Votes: 0

Idries Shah

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The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making. Votes: 0

Douglas Adams

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. Votes: 0

Albert Low

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To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions. Votes: 0

Albert Mohler

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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves. Votes: 0

Adrienne Rich

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Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone. Votes: 0

Jennifer Young

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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity. Votes: 0

Edward de Bono

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Relationship Principle 6 Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential. Votes: 0

Sherry Argov

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The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. Votes: 0

Tony Hoare

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We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions. Votes: 0

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed. Votes: 0

Carl Hart

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The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why? Votes: 0

Kenichi Ohmae

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Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions. Votes: 0

Brian Tracy

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Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next. Votes: 0

David Brin

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But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence. Votes: 0

C.C. Hunter

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Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Votes: 0

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. Votes: 0

E. T. Bell

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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. Votes: 0

Mencius

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[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement. Votes: 0

Jonah Goldberg

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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. Votes: 0

Eric Temple Bell

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We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. Votes: 0

Wassily Leontief

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In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. Votes: 0

Kim Gordon

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Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded. Votes: 0

Michele Jennae

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Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions Votes: 0

Sherif A. El-Mawardy

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Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. Votes: 0

Scott Adams

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There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart. Votes: 0

Meg Ryan

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Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. Votes: 0

Michael Mandelbaum

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...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. Votes: 0

Milton Friedman

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It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey. Votes: 0

Steve Maraboli

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All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. Votes: 0

Marshall McLuhan

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All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline. Votes: 0

Douglas Groothuis

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The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don't take anything personally. 3. Don't make assumptions. 4. Always do your best. Votes: 0

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Lesser

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We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions. Votes: 0

George Barna

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The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works. Votes: 0

Thomas J. Sergiovanni

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Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be. Votes: 0

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere. Votes: 0

Greg Gutfeld

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Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them. Votes: 0

Daniel Kahneman

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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources. Votes: 0

Andrew Solomon

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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. Votes: 0

Ken Burns

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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. Votes: 0

Alan Lightman

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That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge. Votes: 0

Simon Pegg

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The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. Votes: 0

John Seely Brown

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Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO. Votes: 0

Timothy Keller

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Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions. Votes: 0

Edsger Dijkstra

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Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities. Votes: 0

Evelyn Glennie

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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. Votes: 0

George Santayana

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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world. Votes: 0

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. Votes: 0

Muriel Barbery

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To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science. Votes: 0

Richard Lindzen

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All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work. Votes: 0

David Kim

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Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing. Votes: 0

Steve Blank

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People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary. Votes: 0

Jim Norton

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Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science. Votes: 0

Jonathan Sarfati

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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. Votes: 0

Gary Becker

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There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions. Votes: 0

Daniel Dennett

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We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires. Votes: 0

David Platt

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We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day. Votes: 0

Bryant H. McGill

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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. Votes: 0

Isaac Asimov

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Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions. Votes: 0

Mallory Ortberg

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Invite people into your life who don't look or act like you. You might find they challenge your assumptions and make you grow. Votes: 0

Mellody Hobson

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From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character... Votes: 0

David Bohm

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We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings. Votes: 0

David Kim

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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open. Votes: 0

Alfred North Whitehead

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That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to systems. Votes: 0

Fernando J. Corbato

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motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power. Votes: 0

Adrienne Rich

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By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama

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Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions. Votes: 0

Rick Yancey

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Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action. Votes: 0

Peter Senge

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Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul. Votes: 0

Angelica Hopes

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Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you. Votes: 0

Russell Lynes

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Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience. Votes: 0

Paul Feyerabend

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I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior. Votes: 0

Margaret J. Wheatley

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The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science. Votes: 0

I. J. Good

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All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions. Votes: 0

Phil Keoghan

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Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy. Votes: 0

John P. Kotter

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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: 0

Steven Pinker

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A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness. Votes: 0

Satoshi Kanazawa

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Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions. Votes: 0

Michael Lewis

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Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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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: 0

Alan Alda

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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: 0

Charles Francis Richter

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A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit. Votes: 0

Vera Nazarian

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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions. Votes: 0

Dallas Willard

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Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private enterprise and maximum economic growth. Votes: 0

Henry Hazlitt

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People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two. Votes: 0

Sara Sheridan

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Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns. Votes: 0

Northrop Frye

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Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality. Votes: 0

Cornelius Van Til

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What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success. Votes: 0

Carl von Clausewitz

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Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point. Votes: 0

Amanda Palmer

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The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts. Votes: 0

Andrew Tobias

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It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. Votes: 0

Warren Farrell

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We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work Votes: 0

James Fallows

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Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences. Votes: 0

Gary Becker

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Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine. Votes: 0

Ann Demeulemeester

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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: 0

Igor Stravinsky

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The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package. Votes: 0

Julie Bishop

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We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW. Votes: 0

Darren Shan

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Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection. Votes: 0

Robert Grudin

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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation. Votes: 0

Aberjhani

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Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation. Votes: 0

Aberjhani

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When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential customer usage/behavior. Votes: 0

Steven Sinofsky

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Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel. Votes: 0

Graydon Carter

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...history should continually seek to challenge our assumptions. It should prompt us to look differently at the world and make us less self-assured about our own ideals and beliefs. Votes: 0

Christopher Kelly

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If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it. Votes: 0

Jennifer Weiner

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People do make assumptions about models. That's their issue, not mine. It doesn't bother me because I'm comfortable enough in my own skin - I know who I am. Votes: 0

Lily Cole

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With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Zeldman

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I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting. Votes: 0

Antony Beevor

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At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. Votes: 0

Arthur Frommer

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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble. Votes: 0

W. Brian Arthur

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Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds Votes: 0

Thomas Hardy

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A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group. Votes: 0

H. Ned Seelye

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Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts. Votes: 0

Friedrich August von Hayek

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While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong. Votes: 0

Richelle E. Goodrich

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The key question companies need to address is not 'Should we make mistakes?' but rather 'Which mistakes should we make in order to test our deeply held assumptions?' Votes: 0

Paul J. H. Schoemaker

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When you speak openly and honestly, you won't have to make assumptions. The day you stop making assumptions, you will communicate cleanly and clearly, and achieve impeccability with your word. Votes: 0

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs. Votes: 0

Eric Temple Bell

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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association. Votes: 0

Noam Chomsky

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My approach to creating content is focused on pulling people out of their intellectual comfort zones. I'm interested in presenting ideas in unique ways that challenge people to question their assumptions. Votes: 0

Jason Silva

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Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities. Votes: 0

Alexander Hamilton

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I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that. Votes: 0

Sam Harris

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To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures. Votes: 0

Erwin W. Lutzer

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Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions. Votes: 0

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions. Votes: 0

Stephen Covey

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Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions. Votes: 0

Rolf Dobelli

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A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues to influence the characterâs worldview, attitudes, decisions, and actions. Votes: 0

Larry Brooks

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Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make.The Killer Hook Votes: 0

Michael Chabon

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When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was. Votes: 0

Alice Sebold

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We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions. Votes: 0

Wassily Leontief

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The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen. Votes: 0

Bruno Dumont

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I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions. Votes: 0

Barry Bonds

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The pervasive idea is that if you're a man in the fashion industry, you're gay until proven otherwise. And of course there are lots of men who aren't. But people make certain assumptions. Votes: 0

Tim Gunn

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Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be. Votes: 0

Carol Shields

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What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed. Votes: 0

R.M. Engelhardt

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I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus. Votes: 0

Claire McCaskill

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I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true. Votes: 0

Derek Sivers

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What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past. Votes: 0

Robert Nozick

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Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most of the old androcratic values and delusional assumptions remain intact. Votes: 0

Walter Wink

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All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that. Votes: 0

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to-- ironically-fait h! Votes: 0

Ravi Zacharias

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Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them. Votes: 0

Adyashanti

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My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions. Votes: 0

John Lydon

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Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions. Votes: 0

Kim Chernin

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I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers. Votes: 0

John Taylor Gatto

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Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings. Votes: 0

Jose Raul Capablanca

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Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful. Votes: 0

Richard Serra

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I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex. Votes: 0

Callie Khouri

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Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open. Votes: 0

Phillip E. Johnson

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Justified assumptions (25 quotes)

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Wrong assumptions (44 quotes)

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