Assumption Quotes

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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when… — Eddie Vedder
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur… — Paul Watzlawick
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. — E. O. Wilson
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. — Henry Winkler
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with… — Carter G. Woodson
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue. — Julian Baggini
There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and… — Evgeny Morozov
Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability to do something,… — Douglas Rushkoff
[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. — C.S. Lewis
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own… — Michel Foucault
Re-vision â€“ the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction â€“ is for… — Adrienne Rich
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed,… — Herman Melville
Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that weâ€™ll always have more… — Michael Cunningham
The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Donâ€™t take anything personally. 3. Donâ€™t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for… — Marilyn French
It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. Itâ€™s the very nature of wonder to catch us… — Eugene H. Peterson
Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these assumptions are of… — Karl Popper
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth… — H. L. Mencken
You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each… — C.S. Lewis
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living… — Trevanian

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