Assumption Quotes

680 Assumption quotes by 563 unique authors

Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the counsels… — Martin Luther
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing. — Steve Blank
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that… — Jeanette Winterson
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the… — Reginald Horace Blyth
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to… — Ursula K. Le Guin
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of… — Eric Foner
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I… — Franz Kafka
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the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date… — C.S. Lewis
In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to… — Hilary of Poitiers
Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter. — Lysa TerKeurst
A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what… — Michel Foucault
Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he? — Stephen Fry
Ignorance is brought about by assumption. — T.D. Jakes
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. — Salman Rushdie
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs… — Wendell Berry
All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a… — Geena Davis
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about… — Cornelius Van Til
All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline. — Douglas Groothuis
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. — Mindy Kaling
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these… — Alan Hirsch
The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of… — I. J. Good
Meet every person with the assumption that they are your equal. — Julian Burnside
We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a… — Gordon Brown
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me,… — Esther Dyson
Seeing ourselves as we want to be is a key to personal growth. To successfully bring about change in our lives we need to implement… — Hyrum W. Smith

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