Assumption Quotes

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The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track. — Scot McKnight
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. — William of Ockham
We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption… — Jacqueline Novogratz
Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer.… — Kyle E. McSlarrow
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to… — Muhammad Iqbal
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed… — George Lakoff
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man… — H. L. Mencken
China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with… — Henry A. Kissinger
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we… — Alonzo Church
I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do. If they decide… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial… — Henry A. Kissinger
The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that… — Isaiah Berlin
Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon… — Hugh B. Brown
Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions. — Geoff Tate
It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the… — Paul Feyerabend
On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as… — Karl Barth
I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to… — Neal Stephenson
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're… — Edward Albee
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a… — Edgar Schein

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