The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires. — David Platt Copy Share Image
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book.… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured. — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Life is not a continued example of damnation through assumed plight. It is a yearly revolved memory from centuries of faced doubt. — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Science and medicine and technology have all produced the breathtaking advances with which they have gifted the human race, only because they… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or… — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I would you say 25-50 percent is the likelihood that my cause of death will be suicide. Not because I am depressive… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning… — Christopher Zeeman Copy Share Image
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate,… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I think that Donald Trump successfully mobilized a big chunk of America to vote for him and he's going to win. He… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Even in our own agriculture strategy, if we got a great new drought-resistant seed and we managed to get it distributed in… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
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. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success. — James Fox Copy Share Image
The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative. — Cargill Gilston Knott Copy Share Image
Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream. — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
