Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
“Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Seeing ourselves as we want to be is a key to personal growth. To successfully bring about change in our lives we… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image
Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
There's been more than one time when I've said something, and sort of the middle of what I've said is not said… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
(On soft launches) It allows you to test your assumptions and see which ones you got right, and more, importantly, which ones… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I undertake my scientific research with the confident assumption that the earth follows the laws of nature which God established at creation.… — James W. Skehan Copy Share Image
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is so true that in liquid modernity freedom was, so to speak, let off the leash, and for a quite a… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I think that Donald Trump successfully mobilized a big chunk of America to vote for him and he's going to win. He… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image