By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
I think our brains does have a tendency to be true to its own ideas and statements. Everything we do and everything… — Andrew B. Newberg Copy Share Image
We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires. — David Platt Copy Share Image
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. — Milton Sapirstein 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
We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or… — Anonymous 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
The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the… — Terence McKenna 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
If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas… — Sue Thoele 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
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
Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention. — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
If people come up to me, I'm going to be nice to them. Essentially, the assumption is that they support what I… — Nick Murphy Copy Share Image
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Very little attention is paid to improving the decision-making skills of both individual executives and the organizational benchstrength as a whole. Often… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image