As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of… — Kristin Linklater Copy Share Image
Kyoya: I don't like this food. But do you think I'd be so inhuman as to complain after you treated me? That's… — Bisco Hatori Copy Share Image
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our assumption is that God has not revealed all there is to know in the spiritual area any more than he has… — Charles H. Kraft Copy Share Image
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most of our notions about the world come from a set of assumptions which we take for granted, and which, for the… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
Even in our own agriculture strategy, if we got a great new drought-resistant seed and we managed to get it distributed in… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Once the idea of a supernaturalistic creation is fully overcome, the idea returns that the universe must be self-organizing and therefore composed… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
“I’ve always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event.” “Why would you ever think that?” — Grace Draven Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization.… — Geoffrey Burbidge Copy Share Image
When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind.… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's… — Kevin Yoder Copy Share Image
If you love me why wait to tell? I'm not the cause of your current hell with expectations you can't perceive is… — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
