Assumption Quotes

680 Assumption quotes by 563 unique authors

The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are… — Alvin Plantinga
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. — Tony Hoare
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush… — Mary Karr
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret;… — Ivan Illich
Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to… — Steven Biko
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of… — J. C. R. Licklider
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear… — Robyn Hitchcock
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its… — Albert J. Nock
All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and… — Joseph Murphy
All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the 'renewing of the mind' is desire. You must want… — Neville Goddard
You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine that you are… — Neville Goddard
Disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire. Rest in the assumption that you are already… — Neville Goddard
You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you… — Neville Goddard
I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged. — Terry McAuliffe
The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment… — Lynn Margulis
The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable… — Nicholas Eberstadt
Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on… — Adam Garfinkle
If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin… — Gerhard
The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This… — Robert Warshow
Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world. — Aaron Huey
People, please remember that I choose my words very carefully. Assumptions are your enemy. — Chris Kluwe
Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues to influence the… — Larry Brooks
A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not… — John Naughton
Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world… — Richard Marcinko

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