Assumed Quotes

439 Assumed quotes by 377 unique authors

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. — Alan Bennett
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be… — William Blake
At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers… — Mika Brzezinski
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed… — Alan Alda
I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children. — Kim Cattrall
When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after… — Noam Chomsky
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our… — Grover Cleveland
I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking… — Kurt Cobain
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but… — Isaac Asimov
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and… — J. Reuben Clark
For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus,… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done… — Unknown Author
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent — David R. Brower
The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down,… — Robert Sherrod
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. — George Santayana
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton
Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a… — Ken Robinson
I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth… — Alice Walker
The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be… — John B. S. Haldane
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then… — Henry Jenkins
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have… — Thomas Jefferson
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that… — Sigmund Freud
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by… — Isaac Newton
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as… — Charles Darwin

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