That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans.… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then… — Moby Copy Share Image
My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
And the cool kids always had a stop sign in their bedroom. Which means: "I don't care if people die. I want… — Josh Smith Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to… — Lilian Whiting Copy Share Image
John's baptism...was a radical act of individual commitment to belong to the true people of God, based on personal confession and repentance...… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all. They are actually excited about… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
When George W.Bush attacked Afghanistan, it was widely hailed, and the failure of our war there wasn't understood. Within a few months… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything? — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
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