For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
The worst thing about e-mail is that you can’t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal,… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only… — Douglas Merrill Copy Share Image
Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution… — Dean H. Kenyon Copy Share Image
I've played lots of strong women in film, in big Hollywood films, and I've sometimes had a hard time in coming to… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
“Making assumptions in our relationships is really asking for problems. Often we make the assumption that our partners know what we think… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Don’t believe something just because you want to, and don’t embrace an idea just because you’ve always believed it. Believe what is… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they… — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I noticed that the work of my non - I noticed that the work of my friends who were white and male,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest… — Jack McBrayer Copy Share Image
The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it… — Gabriel Kolko Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in.… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories,… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image