Assumption Quotes

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In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption… — George Bernard Shaw
If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in… — Felix Frankfurter
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is… — John W. Gardner
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities. — Evelyn Glennie
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize… — Germaine Greer
Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption. — Phil Collins
What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically… — Bryan Cranston
People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption. — Andrew Cuomo
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith,… — Tryon Edwards
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks… — Vernon Howard
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. — Thomas Huxley
Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit… — Naveen Jain
There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will… — Daniel Kahneman
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have… — Jean Kerr
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. — Hugh Kingsmill
My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't… — John Lydon
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given… — George MacDonald
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. — Marshall McLuhan

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