A weakness of the random-walk model lies in its assumption of instantaneous adjustment, whereas the information impelling a stock market toward its… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
“Man believes the future to be the natural development of the past. But the law of assumption clearly shows that this is… — Neville Copy Share Image
The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
The notion that only those who preach the gospel of integrated medicine are able to perform the art of medicine is as… — Edzard Ernst Copy Share Image
I'm sick and tired of this stuff. I'm sick of them doing it. I'm sick and tired of it working. I'm sick… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us,… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there were bacteria… [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Dr. King's policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail,… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number… — Millar Burrows Copy Share Image
The theory of the IRS is rather repugnant to me because the assumption is made that I, the government, owns 100% of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Most Americans instinctively recoil from the claim that there is an antireligious bias running through the underlying assumptions with which their society… — Stephen V Monsma Copy Share Image
Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish.… — David M. Kreps Copy Share Image
I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
That doesn't mean that the top fifteen institutions in the ranking somehow don't belong there at all. But what is the difference… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The assumption was that a calorie is a calorie. Nothing could be further from the truth. The food industry wants you to… — Robert Lustig Copy Share Image
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image