There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
“Humans run on emotion, assumption and impulse. We cant function on logic alone. But emotion assumption and impulse also allow us to… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Coming out of WWII, there was the assumption, the hope, the vision of a world at peace, of a kind of Wilsonian… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
If people come up to me, I'm going to be nice to them. Essentially, the assumption is that they support what I… — Nick Murphy Copy Share Image
The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A common obstruction to a vital intimate relationship is what I call the assumption of clairvoyance. You imagine, perhaps unconsciously, that your… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured,… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister,… — Paul Douglas Copy Share Image
As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to… — Douglas Coupland 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
The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
