Assumption Quotes

680 Assumption quotes by 563 unique authors

Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power… — Thomas Jefferson
Don’t believe something just because you want to, and don’t embrace an idea just because you’ve always believed it. Believe what is biblical. Test all… — Francis Chan
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something… — Thomas Sowell
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until… — Chauncey Wright
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life, about… — Earl Nightingale
The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our souls, irrespective of… — Harry Blamires
Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into… — Mahatma Gandhi
The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right. — Bum Phillips
Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a… — Roland Barthes
Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to… — Amanda Palmer
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying… — Steven Pinker
This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of human expression. The… — Kristin Linklater
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of… — Kenny Smith
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a… — Michael Faraday
Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about whether it is… — Daisy Whitney
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure — Ambrose Bierce
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of… — Ellen Willis
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but… — Rollo May
The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it ultimately deems necessary,… — Gabriel Kolko
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. — Ned Rorem
Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is… — Shunryu Suzuki
Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate… — Michael Persinger
[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement. — Jonah Goldberg
Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without… — Robert A. Heinlein

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