Assumption Quotes

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Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let… — George W. Bush
As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made… — William Trevor
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. — Chuck Palahniuk
Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron. — Eoin Colfer
Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative… — Stephen Kendrick
The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good. — Jonah Goldberg
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We… — Wendell Berry
I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have… — John Taylor Gatto
Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth. — Alain Badiou
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious. — Kay Redfield Jamison
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. — Isaac Asimov
Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models… — Warren Buffett
A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions,… — Michel Foucault
There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them. — Unknown Author
When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I… — Bret Easton Ellis
As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to… — Muriel Barbery
A story begins with this nebulous feeling thatâ€™s hard to get a hold of and youâ€™re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing what you believe.… — Michael Chabon
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves. — Adrienne Rich

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