We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The notion by most women that every man that comes into their lives want something from them is overrated; some come to… — POB Bismark Copy Share Image
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy! — Astro Teller Copy Share Image
It is unwise to readily assume something all the time. Assumptions are almost never correct anyways. — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of… — Philip Kitcher 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
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea… — Francis John McConnell Copy Share Image
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in.… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. — John Seely Brown 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
Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next. — David Brin Copy Share Image
The Jews believed they were the nation God had chosen among all the nations. And they were. But that did not give… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
