Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay. — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption. — Jason Jordan Copy Share Image
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle. — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential. — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something.… — Phil Keoghan 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
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This… — John Rosemond Copy Share Image
I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Hold fast, in your imagination, to all that is lovely and of good report, for the lovely and the good are essential… — Neville Copy Share Image
My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god,… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The issue Fodor writes about is central to the psychology of perception, cognition, and action. It is the central issue for anyone… — Alvin Liberman Copy Share Image
Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Now if you can recognize and memorize a grandmaster's game, and you have the respect to understand [Zimbabwean president Robert] Mugabe who… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently… — Stanton T. Friedman Copy Share Image
Once the idea of a supernaturalistic creation is fully overcome, the idea returns that the universe must be self-organizing and therefore composed… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world. — Wanda Koop Copy Share Image
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image