You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause. 'Prejudice… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track. — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught… — Sylvia Porter Copy Share Image
The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This… — John Rosemond Copy Share Image
I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The problem with multiculturalism is it's kind of arrogant. The arrogance is the assumption that everyone will buy into our values, because… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
Very little attention is paid to improving the decision-making skills of both individual executives and the organizational benchstrength as a whole. Often… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
In a very philosophic sense I think doing the work is itself a good thing. But at the end of the day,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly… — Rosy Cole Copy Share Image
To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions. — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other. — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The notion by most women that every man that comes into their lives want something from them is overrated; some come to… — POB Bismark Copy Share Image
We need to challenge this assumption that any child who's alone, who isn't being directly supervised and observed, is a child in… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Your desire to advise other people, grows in line with your perception... that assumes you're wiser than them.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
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