"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The key question companies need to address is not 'Should we make mistakes?' but rather 'Which mistakes should we make in order… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker Copy Share Image
There's an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you're this, or you're absolutely… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
I hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works. — Thomas J. Sergiovanni Copy Share Image
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the… — Jeremy Hunt Copy Share Image
We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on… — Lorin Maazel Copy Share Image
We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution… — Dean H. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I've played lots of strong women in film, in big Hollywood films, and I've sometimes had a hard time in coming to… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in.… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of… — Orville Wright 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
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
The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is… — Frederic Harrison Copy Share Image
“Brain thrives on assumptions, that ain't the problem, trouble begins when all thought ends at assumption.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
My assumption is I'm not going to be recognized. But when I am, I'm like, "Dang, you know who I am?" I… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
You leave nothing to assumption," Dory Maud says. "You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's any of her left for… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image