Assumptions Quotes

320 quotes by 273 authors

The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in patterns of life… — Mildred Blaxter
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think… — Callie Khouri
Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone. — Jennifer Young
I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way,… — Sarah Ruhl
Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such… — Edward Hirsch
The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works. — Thomas J. Sergiovanni
An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To… — Sue Thoele
Women notice details that most men don't. They notice if your belt and shoes match. They notice what kinds of foods you like to eat.… — Eben Pagan
Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general… — Christopher Zeeman
The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an outer manifestation of… — Al Gore
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. — Marshall McLuhan
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I… — Henry Ford
We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by… — Friedrich August von Hayek
We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive… — Richard Wiseman
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct. — Walter Darby Bannard
Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills,… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any… — Pico Iyer
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why? — Kenichi Ohmae

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