Assumptions Quotes

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By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know.… — Darin Strauss
It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this… — Karl Popper
The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they did. This is… — Peggy Noonan
My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all. — Elizabeth Lesser
Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency… — Unknown Author
It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution doctrine rests, and… — Dean H. Kenyon
I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to… — Michael Greger
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. — William of Ockham
Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer.… — Unknown Author
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to… — Muhammad Iqbal
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
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
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
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
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

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