Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find… — Richard P. Feynman 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
A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The problem with multiculturalism is it's kind of arrogant. The arrogance is the assumption that everyone will buy into our values, because… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry… — Adam Garfinkle Copy Share Image
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
When George W.Bush attacked Afghanistan, it was widely hailed, and the failure of our war there wasn't understood. Within a few months… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in nature is based… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about… — Daisy Whitney Copy Share Image
Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Most Americans instinctively recoil from the claim that there is an antireligious bias running through the underlying assumptions with which their society… — Stephen V Monsma Copy Share Image
Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
“For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number… — Millar Burrows Copy Share Image
The theory of the IRS is rather repugnant to me because the assumption is made that I, the government, owns 100% of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Dr. King's policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail,… — Alonzo Church Copy Share Image
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's… — Kevin Yoder Copy Share Image
A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Executive Intelligence is about the specific skills one must have in order to succeed in senior leadership positions, i.e. the ability to… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
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