The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave,… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that… — Peter Lilley 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
No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
Now if you can recognize and memorize a grandmaster's game, and you have the respect to understand [Zimbabwean president Robert] Mugabe who… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god,… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“You already beat yourself up for enough things that aren't your fault. People who care don't want to add to that." He… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them. — Daniel Kahneman 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
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why? — Kenichi Ohmae Copy Share Image
My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Assumption was the mother from which all mistakes are born’ or most commonly known as, ‘The mother of all fuck ups’.” — Stephanie Hudson Copy Share Image
Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge. — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Relationship Principle 6 Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential. — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the world that we can count on, even that we will wake up is an assumption” — The Dresden Dolls Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image