Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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
Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be a mistake.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Honesty . . . is the foundation upon which relationships and many societies are built. Without it . . . there can… — Janny Scott Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The reason I love travel is not just because it transports you in every sense, but because it confronts you with emotional… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Every time I make an assumption about someone who has hurt or disappointed me without confirming it, I believe a lie about… — Peter Scazzero Copy Share Image
There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“You, by your conscious assumptions, determine the nature of the world in which you live. Ignore the present state and assume the… — Neville Copy Share Image
When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value… — Kyle E. McSlarrow Copy Share Image
The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING… — Miguel Copy Share Image
Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest,… — H. Ned Seelye Copy Share Image
A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers… — Richard Marcinko Copy Share Image
Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There are lots of different ways that algorithms can go wrong, and what we have now is a system in which we… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous.… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or… — Arlene Dickinson Copy Share Image
Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image