Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
“The false assumption is that almost all people, almost all of the time, make choices that are in their best interest or… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
“I'm working from the assumption it's going to go horribly wrong. If we get out of here with limbs intact and no… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in… — David Mamet 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 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
If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
“You may not even have known that you had an assumption. It was only because he came up with the opposite one… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent… — Amy Richards Copy Share Image
I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook.… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I believe that we should take every opportunity to challenge the assumption that our European allies are doing us a favor whenever… — Chester Bowles Copy Share Image
There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
So the misplaced assumption is that we have this whole new institutional element where these [financial] institutions are looking after their own… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women.… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man… — Tom Hatherley Pear Copy Share Image
I think one of the mistakes that people historically have made in Hollywood, and there are countless examples of this, is making… — Hutch Parker Copy Share Image
It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness,… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
(On soft launches) It allows you to test your assumptions and see which ones you got right, and more, importantly, which ones… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image