It is a dangerous assumption to say that people who drain energy "don't know what they are doing." People are sophisticated aware… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere",… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Hiding behind such sacred terms as human rights and distributive justice, politicians and intellectuals alike have perpetrated a gargantuan ruse on humankind:… — Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora Copy Share Image
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook.… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
All of us live at the feeling level, and our feelings are in large part a result of the way we perceive… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has consistently opposed Obamacare (as costing more), stimulus spending (as increasing inflation), etc., none of which has happened in… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you… — Mike Tomlin Copy Share Image
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
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