"We now have a whole culture based on……" — Stephen Vizinczey
"We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them."
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21 Quotes by Stephen Vizinczey
Stephen Vizinczey has 21 quotes on this site.
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author…
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Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the…
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You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
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Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently…
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Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality:…
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
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Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you…
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Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
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The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware…
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Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked…
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More Assumption Quotes
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The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
— Lester Bangs
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many…
— Gary Becker
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The bad-boy label is just an assumption.
— Russell Brand
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been…
— David Brin
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the…
— Harry Browne
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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the…
— Warren Buffett
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As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song,…
— Julie Burchill
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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
— Ken Burns
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile,…
— Alan Alda
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The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you…
— David Byrne
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of…
— Sherman Alexie
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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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