What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
We all dream; it is a mystery in which all humankind participates. I realize this is an assumption, but it is one… — Andrew D. Chumbley Copy Share Image
Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will… — John Carroll 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
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at… — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things… — Ron Currie Jr 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
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
