The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires. — David Platt Copy Share Image
I think people see the social media numbers, and the assumption is made that we're running a campaign that is just social… — James Lankford Copy Share Image
Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They… — John Madden Copy Share Image
Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of… — Dean Radin Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
The rottenness of politics in Yugoslavia didn't come as a surprise. The main lesson is that this is a war which could… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. ... We have been… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Net neutrality is rooted in a number of leftist assumptions, and that is that all corporation is evil, that all profit is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured. — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book.… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Life is not a continued example of damnation through assumed plight. It is a yearly revolved memory from centuries of faced doubt. — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream. — George Trumbull Ladd 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
It is unwise to readily assume something all the time. Assumptions are almost never correct anyways. — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
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![“[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b3/carl-sagan-160_argument_science-is-not-perfect-it-can-be-misused_2558360.jpg)
