We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she… — Fred Ward Copy Share Image
Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations… — Michael Persinger Copy Share Image
As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of… — Greg Walloch Copy Share Image
Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization.… — Geoffrey Burbidge Copy Share Image
Objectivism is basically the same thing as faith-based science or for that matter faith-based foreign policy, where you start out with the… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Most of them have, of course, an agenda; mostly born-again Christians looking to save my soul. I suppose the assumption is made… — Eric Rudolph Copy Share Image
There tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Before I write anything, before I create any assumption in my mind about what it's like to be in that world, I… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the 'renewing of the mind' is desire.… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom & Sons, and she… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The trouble today is that many Christians live in a kind of bubble of assumptions about what their Christianity means, especially if… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Only recently has part of America challenged the long-held assumption that America is a Christian nation. Most citizens do not recognize just… — Daniel Lapin Copy Share Image
I think that, on the one hand, our audience, our culture is so savvy now to an assumption that teaser effects are… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
Disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire. Rest in the assumption that… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Since Ronald Reagan we have had this assumption in the United States that the Republicans are the party of the military, the… — Elissa Slotkin Copy Share Image
Sometimes people will ask a real "Why are you beating your wife?" question where there's some assumption built into it, and all… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then… — Moby Copy Share Image
Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I do think it's important not to be absolutely sure, so sure that you can't reinvent yourself in some way, or at… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact… — Roni Horn Copy Share Image
I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image