The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability. — David Platt Copy Share Image
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now. — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science. — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me,… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
People do make assumptions about models. That's their issue, not mine. It doesn't bother me because I'm comfortable enough in my own… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
“The drama of life is a psychological one and the whole of it is written and produced by your assumptions. Learn the… — Neville Copy Share Image
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
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
My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions. — George Barna Copy Share Image
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities. — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
The key question companies need to address is not 'Should we make mistakes?' but rather 'Which mistakes should we make in order… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker Copy Share Image
I hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
There's an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you're this, or you're absolutely… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works. — Thomas J. Sergiovanni Copy Share Image
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of… — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm making the assumption that after Mrs. Obama leaves the White House that she will continue all of her work toward improving… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late. — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
