Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. — Mencius Copy Share Image
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
“Assumptions are the most damaging enemies of our mind’s equilibrium...An assumption is an imaginary truth.” — A.A. Alebraheem Copy Share Image
I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave. — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline. — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises. — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING… — Miguel Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or… — Arlene Dickinson Copy Share Image
A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The trouble today is that many Christians live in a kind of bubble of assumptions about what their Christianity means, especially if… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong...… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Perhaps preachers today need to think about the assumptions that are common in their congregation - the plausibilities and comforting assurances -… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted… — Akira Mori Copy Share Image
Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in… — Mildred Blaxter Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong. — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to… — Satoshi Kanazawa Copy Share Image
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant. — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
There are lots of different ways that algorithms can go wrong, and what we have now is a system in which we… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous.… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
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