We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
I am talking about ordinary people making the link between their communities being treated as disposable and the assumption that the environments… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
One of the tracks that I have is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - by the way, that's Bach's second son - Emanuel… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
One of my optimistic prophecies is based on the assumption that machines could have the best algorithms in the universe, but it… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Most of our notions about the world come from a set of assumptions which we take for granted, and which, for the… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it.… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“We very often express in a categorical form a judgment of which we do not feel assured, we even lay stress on… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
White people don't have that problem, they get to go through life never having to fit into a box, and it's really… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives.… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Supporters of the war are constantly asking those who oppose it: Why don't you deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly,… — Faith Adiele Copy Share Image
The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labor unions and… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky Copy Share Image
The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind.… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Similarly, the press never tested many of the assumptions about WMDs. One of the great myths about the WMD issue is that… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
The Jews believed they were the nation God had chosen among all the nations. And they were. But that did not give… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
I think our brains does have a tendency to be true to its own ideas and statements. Everything we do and everything… — Andrew B. Newberg Copy Share Image
For too many of us, it's become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or on college campuses,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
We tend to speak of sin in very personal and individual terms. Jeremiah does not downplay that, but he also sees how… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
