Assumptions Quotes

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The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies… — Alfie Kohn
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. — John Sayles
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology… — Christopher Hitchens
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. — Albert Low
Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions, prejudices, and stresses… — Deepak Chopra
The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be replaced… — Henri Poincare
This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your… — Adyashanti
Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's… — Hillary Clinton
Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about… — Ann Demeulemeester
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble… — Henry Petroski
The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly… — Ravi Zacharias
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing. — Steve Blank
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to… — Ursula K. Le Guin
A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what… — Michel Foucault
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. — Salman Rushdie
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about… — Cornelius Van Til
All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline. — Douglas Groothuis
The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of… — I. J. Good
Seeing ourselves as we want to be is a key to personal growth. To successfully bring about change in our lives we need to implement… — Hyrum W. Smith

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