Assumption Quotes

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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open. — Alfred North Whitehead
Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. — William Hazlitt
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable… — George Bernard Shaw
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels. — Mortimer Adler
Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,… — John Stuart Mill
The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some… — John Stuart Mill
Assume a virtue if you have it not. — William Shakespeare
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities. — William J. H. Boetcker
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them. — Stephen Vizinczey
You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do. — Simone de Beauvoir
You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. — Denis Waitley
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. — John Stuart Mill
True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it… — Guy Finley
The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as… — John C. Calhoun
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken… — H. L. Mencken
We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always… — Albert Einstein
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,… — Carl Sagan
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things… — George Johnson

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