For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the 'masses'… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There will always be people that will have assumptions about you, about my character, my personality, or that I might put on… — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science. — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Once you start to ask patients about their priorities, you discover what they're living for. Once you uncover that, it helps you,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
A common obstruction to a vital intimate relationship is what I call the assumption of clairvoyance. You imagine, perhaps unconsciously, that your… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is… — Frederic Harrison Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
