In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook.… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
There is an assumption if you are not religious, you have fallen, or you are further from God, or you are not… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've always been curious about people's psychedelic experiences, and I kind of had this assumption that I was going to have some… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
Most of the generation Trump - the alt-right people, the people who like me - they're not anti-Semites. They don't care about… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
People are always shocked to hear I'm an athlete by profession and even more shocked when they hear I'm a fencer from… — Ibtihaj Muhammad Copy Share Image
Refuse to think in terms of this or that. All pain needs investigation. The mind is nothing else but the self. Assumption… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
All depends really on what kinds of assumptions you make. When you're forecasting things that will be happening 50 to 100 years… — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The most hurtful thing to me is when people try to put assumptions on me and my relationship because that is not… — Gigi Hadid Copy Share Image
If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape,… — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
“We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans.… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The well-mannered man never puts out his hand in greeting until a lady extends hers. This is a test of good breeding… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
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