Assumption Quotes

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At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader… — Arthur Frommer
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. — John Seely Brown
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation.… — Alison Lurie
To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other men is implicitly… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of… — Erich Fromm
In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our… — Thucydides
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the… — Poul Anderson
By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know.… — Darin Strauss
It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this… — Karl Popper
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and… — Kurt Vonnegut
The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labor unions and by every single… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky
The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they did. This is… — Peggy Noonan
So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian,… — Chaz Bono
My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all. — Elizabeth Lesser
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although the… — Gwynne Dyer
Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency… — Unknown Author
I undertake my scientific research with the confident assumption that the earth follows the laws of nature which God established at creation. ... My studies… — Unknown Author
It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution doctrine rests, and… — Dean H. Kenyon
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to… — Michael Greger

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