Assuming Quotes

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We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in… — Isabel Briggs Myers
When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this… — James L. Kraft
What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and ideals, a knowledge… — John Mortimer Smith
No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of… — Jessie Bernard
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic. — Felix Morley
Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities. — Mike Cloud
Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies central… — Thomas Naylor
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe… — Lancelot Hogben
[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
One does not have to prove a negative. One should assume a negative. — David Eller
Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as… — Victor J. Stenger
If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life… — Seneca the Younger
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false… — Hannah Arendt
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and… — Carlos Castaneda
...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge. — Mohammed Arkoun
Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body in health and when not in health, and the means… — Avicenna
Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become… — Horace Mann
Find your own picture, your own self in anything that goes bad. It's awfully easy to mouth off at your staff or chew out players,… — Bear Bryant
It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large… — Sanford Levinson

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