We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and… — Joe Slovo Copy Share Image
The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
The pervasive idea is that if you're a man in the fashion industry, you're gay until proven otherwise. And of course there… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I’m going to make the wildly unfounded assumption that Satara’s dead by your hand and not Tory’s. Now, stay with me on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us,… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
The main thing that we're doing is thinking we can control anything, which is the biggest false assumption we can make. I… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I'm writing with the assumption that most of you who are reading this book have concluded what I have: Preaching doesn't workpreaching,… — Doug Pagitt Copy Share Image
The Holocaust most assuredly challenges any and all faith in God. Faith in humanity. Faith in nature. Faith in the future. I… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and… — Edgar Schein Copy Share Image