Assumptions Quotes

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Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power… — Thomas Jefferson
Donâ€™t believe something just because you want to, and donâ€™t embrace an idea just because youâ€™ve always believed it. Believe what is biblical. Test all… — Francis Chan
Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to… — Amanda Palmer
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying… — Steven Pinker
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of… — Kenny Smith
Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about whether it is… — Daisy Whitney
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure — Ambrose Bierce
[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement. — Jonah Goldberg
Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments… — Marcus Aurelius
Most of our notions about the world come from a set of assumptions which we take for granted, and which, for the most part, we… — Werner Erhard
The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. Iâ€™m not… — Roni Horn
Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. — Michael Mandelbaum
Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you. — Russell Lynes
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious… — Richard Rohr
The people who whine about Fox News are hypocrites - they say they're totally tolerant, but when they run into someone who doesn't share their… — Greg Gutfeld
Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions. — Edsger Dijkstra
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit,… — Mary Ann Glendon
The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and telling us what… — Russell Peters

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