Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. — Mencius Copy Share Image
Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
“Assumptions are the most damaging enemies of our mind’s equilibrium...An assumption is an imaginary truth.” — A.A. Alebraheem Copy Share Image
I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave. — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline. — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises. — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness,… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
I think one of the mistakes that people historically have made in Hollywood, and there are countless examples of this, is making… — Hutch Parker 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
People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no… — Joseph Murphy 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
Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
My studies have shown that the process of falling into mature love happens in four steps. When you meet a woman, you… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open… — Ruth Negga Copy Share Image
Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that… — Mary C. Ames 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
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong. — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to… — Satoshi Kanazawa Copy Share Image
I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the… — Alan Alda 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
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
If you go with that spirit, good things will come for you. If you go into it with an assumption that you're… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
“Don't blame others for your assumption of their actions; the best resolution is to simply ask.” — A.R. Voss Copy Share Image
Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary. — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to… — Wendell Berry 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
When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay.… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them… — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
