Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something.… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
“if you attack a problem with the wrong assumption, there is nowhere to go but deeper into that assumption” — Beau Lotto Copy Share Image
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
My lazy, unfair assumption is that everything's easier when you're young and stunning. And maybe it is! But I'd like to see… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
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
I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent… — Amy Richards Copy Share Image
The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook.… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
There's a profound price to the incorrect assumption that LGBTQ movements are white, male and wealthy. That is not a good thing… — Amber Hollibaugh 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
when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
My take away here is to not make assumptions when analyzing data. It might be safe to assume you Facebook page will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix… — Robert Briffault 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
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
Shame on you, Crispin. Married how long, and you haven't spanked your wife with a metal spatula yet?" I'd gotten used to… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in… — Merle Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's "a 'disorder of "assumption"' - the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit,… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address… — James Howe Copy Share Image
Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me. — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities. — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
