Assumption Quotes

680 quotes by 574 authors

Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now. — Aaron Levie
Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for… — James Q. Wilson
I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere. — Greg Gutfeld
It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are… — Thomas Nagel
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. — Murray Bookchin
For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some… — Anthony Braxton
We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in… — Darren Shan
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with… — H. L. Mencken
The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases,… — H. L. Mencken
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is… — H. L. Mencken
As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective… — Bill Frist
I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find… — Fred Hoyle
The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are… — Alvin Plantinga
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. — Tony Hoare
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush… — Mary Karr
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret;… — Ivan Illich

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