Best We Assume Quotes
78 We Assume quotes by 76 unique authors
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My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific…
— Ray Kurzweil
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So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first…
— Lance Morrow
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We assume, falsely, that how we feel now is how we will feel in the future
— Paulo Coelho
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All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a…
— Geena Davis
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Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we…
— Susan Jacoby
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Although we seem to be separate individuals, in reality we are all expressions of one primal imagination. We assume we are many, but in fact…
— Timothy Freke
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that…
— Adrienne Rich
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We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and…
— Lewis Thomas
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If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy…
— Don DeLillo
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Our negative thoughts are valuable messages to us about our deeper fears and negative attitudes. These usually are so basic to our thinking and feeling…
— Shakti Gawain
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Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven.…
— R C Sproul
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In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
— Dick Cavett
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I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
— Giordano Bruno
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The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not serve us, we…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they…
— Susan Mitchell
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We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated…
— Rachel Carson
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We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives.
— Frederick Lenz
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We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards…
— Anne Hathaway
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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
— Eric Hoffer
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks…
— Vernon Howard
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When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be,…
— Charles de Lint
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The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone…
— Jonathan Sacks
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We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.
— James Surowiecki
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