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Assumption Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal…
- Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date…
- [The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
- 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…
- The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his…
- Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than…
- What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in…
More Assumption Quotes
- The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. — Lester Bangs
- Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. — Gary Becker
- The bad-boy label is just an assumption. — Russell Brand
- The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate… — David Brin
- A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces… — Harry Browne
- I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the… — Warren Buffett
- As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it… — Julie Burchill
- History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. — Ken Burns
- Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the… — Alan Alda
- The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in… — David Byrne
- In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter… — Sherman Alexie
- The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality… — Gilbert K. Chesterton