The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Every generation thinks they invented sex, which is the stupidest assumption in the world because if that was the case, you wouldn't… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions. — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave,… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It wasobviated in the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Journalists don't sit down and think, "I'm now going to speak for the establishment." Of course not. But they internalize a whole… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught… — Sylvia Porter Copy Share Image
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