Assumption Quotes

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The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly… — Ravi Zacharias
We build buildings based on the false assumption that women go to mosques half as much as they actually do. In fact, the US is… — Dalia Mogahed
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing… — John Stuart Mill
The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea,… — Jack Welch
Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as individuals, and by… — Alex Pentland
Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the counsels… — Martin Luther
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing. — Steve Blank
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that… — Jeanette Winterson
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the… — Reginald Horace Blyth
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to… — Ursula K. Le Guin
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of… — Eric Foner
Writing sustains me. But wouldnâ€™t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I… — Franz Kafka
Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date… — C.S. Lewis
In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to… — Hilary of Poitiers
Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter. — Lysa TerKeurst
A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what… — Michel Foucault
Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he? — Stephen Fry
Ignorance is brought about by assumption. — T.D. Jakes
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. — Salman Rushdie
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs… — Wendell Berry

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