Assumption Quotes

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Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to… — Amanda Palmer
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying… — Steven Pinker
This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of human expression. The… — Kristin Linklater
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of… — Kenny Smith
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a… — Michael Faraday
Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about whether it is… — Daisy Whitney
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure — Ambrose Bierce
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of… — Ellen Willis
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but… — Rollo May
The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it ultimately deems necessary,… — Gabriel Kolko
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. — Ned Rorem
Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is… — Shunryu Suzuki
Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate… — Michael Persinger
[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement. — Jonah Goldberg
Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without… — Robert A. Heinlein
Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine… — Allen Tate
At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of… — H. L. Mencken
Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love… — Mahatma Gandhi
Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments… — Marcus Aurelius
Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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