Assumption Quotes
680 Assumption quotes by 563 unique authors
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It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in…
— Marcus Garvey
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There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills,…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any…
— Pico Iyer
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We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.
— Laura Schlessinger
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We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should…
— Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
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People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to…
— William Eckhardt
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The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!
— Astro Teller
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The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?
— Kenichi Ohmae
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In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption…
— George Bernard Shaw
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If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in…
— Felix Frankfurter
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The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is…
— John W. Gardner
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Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
— Evelyn Glennie
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The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize…
— Germaine Greer
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Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.
— Phil Collins
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What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically…
— Bryan Cranston
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People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.
— Andrew Cuomo
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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith,…
— Tryon Edwards
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks…
— Vernon Howard
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Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
— Thomas Huxley
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Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit…
— Naveen Jain
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There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will…
— Daniel Kahneman
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