“Don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.” — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts. — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption — C. West Churchman Copy Share Image
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions. — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy! — Astro Teller 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
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
“Making the assumption that I am in the presence of criminals has always kept me safe when interacting with police officers.” — Steven Magee 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
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
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities. — Evelyn Glennie 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
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
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
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
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
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
“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. ... We have been… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There's been a certain amount of opportunism in the wake of the Paris attacks in 2015, when there was almost a reflexive… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political willof others; it is, through the analyses that he does in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
...but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
