Assumption Quotes

680 Assumption quotes by 563 unique authors

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed… — George Lakoff
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man… — H. L. Mencken
China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with… — Henry A. Kissinger
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we… — Alonzo Church
I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do. If they decide… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial… — Henry A. Kissinger
The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that… — Isaiah Berlin
Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon… — Hugh B. Brown
Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions. — Geoff Tate
It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the… — Paul Feyerabend
On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as… — Karl Barth
I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to… — Neal Stephenson
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're… — Edward Albee
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a… — Edgar Schein
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation… — Edgar Schein
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources. — Andrew Solomon
Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around. — Mark Parker
Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil… — Lois McMaster Bujold
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. — William Lyon Phelps
A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's… — Satoshi Kanazawa
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only… — Unknown Author
...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as… — Robert McNamara
Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between… — Charles Lyell

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