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You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise. -- Leonard Nimoy
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. -- Ulrich Beck
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong. -- Jeff Hawkins
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. -- Warren Buffett
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. -- Jean Kerr
Don't make assumptions. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. -- Henry Winkler
Assumption is the mother of the screw-up. -- Angelo Donghia
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. -- Marshall McLuhan
Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around. -- Mark Parker
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. -- Will Durant
Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption. -- Henry Hampton
Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. -- Peter Gay
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. -- John Seely Brown
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them. -- Stephen Vizinczey
Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong. -- Robert Ringer
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. -- Alan Alda
If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used. -- Charles Francis Richter
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. -- Henry James Sumner Maine
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections. -- Steven Pinker
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. -- Igor Stravinsky
We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people. -- Joe Slovo
beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely FaÃ§ade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men. -- Erica Jong
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. -- Carter G. Woodson
The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar. -- Elizabeth McCracken
Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels. -- Fred Ward
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. -- George MacDonald
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. -- Mindy Kaling
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else. -- Gary Becker
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. -- Orville Wright
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. -- E. O. Wilson
Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back. -- Sheryl Sandberg
I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses. -- Tom Stoppard
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.' -- Paul Watzlawick
It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California. -- Douglas Coupland
A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged. -- Harry Browne
When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's when you don't prepare for a tough battle, when you're caught flat-footed, that you're vulnerable. -- Kevin Yoder
Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch. -- Tamsin Egerton
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods. -- Stanley Hauerwas
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began. -- Phillip E. Johnson
When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around. -- Jeb Bush
What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption. -- Bryan Cranston
Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. -- Evan Davis
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.' -- Max Weber
There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. -- Warren E. Burger
Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter in Florida, and in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles song to the North Star (Polaris), on the assumption that any putative Polarians would appreciate the Fab Four's 1960s-genre compositions. -- Seth Shostak
Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you to previously dark places. Just as the sun shines earlier and longer in the spring, changes that seemed impossible appear to be possible with each new insight into your own health. -- Gary Zukav
There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do. -- Oliver North
Sometimes experience trumps assumption. -- Whoopi Goldberg
Ignorance is brought about by assumption. -- T. D. Jakes
Tolerance is the assumption of superiority -- Wendell Willkie
The bad-boy label is just an assumption. -- Russell Brand
An assumption is the joke; truth the punchline. -- Criss Jami
Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility. -- Douglas Wilson
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. -- John Stuart Mill
The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science. -- Frank Olvera
Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle. -- Hugh Nibley
The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation. -- Vilayat Inayat Khan
Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you. -- James Cromwell
It is always better to ask then to make an assumption. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Meet every person with the assumption that they are your equal. -- Julian Burnside
Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption. -- Andy Stanley
The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption. -- Alan Dean Foster
The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes. -- William Poundstone
You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged. -- Terry McAuliffe
The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception. -- Kathleen Hall Jamieson
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption -- Herbert W. Armstrong
It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption -- C. West Churchman
There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic. -- Susan Jeffers
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry. -- Max Planck
A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean. -- Timothy Morton
To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption. -- Jason Jordan
Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay. -- Johann Hari
The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making. -- Douglas Adams
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. -- Hugh Kingsmill
Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven. -- Monica Johnson
If you assume you are better than someone,you make yourself relies on that assumption. -- Toba Beta
Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home. -- Laura Schlessinger
we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments -- Richard Carlson
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. -- John Fiske
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence. -- Peter Drucker
SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. -- Ambrose Bierce
Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom. -- Ambrose Bierce
Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world. -- Wanda Koop
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy! -- Astro Teller
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. -- Robert Breault
The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read. -- James W. Loewen
Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists. -- Henry Giroux
We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older. -- Charles Kennedy
People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption. -- Andrew Cuomo
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. -- Isaac Asimov
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. -- Murray Bookchin
Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable. -- Henry Giroux
I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. -- Robin Hobb
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. -- William Hazlitt
Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life. -- Philip Selznick
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. -- Ned Rorem
I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment. -- Srikumar Rao
There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever. -- David Gene Gibbs
Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability. -- David Platt
Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases. -- Nancy Leveson
There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning? -- Seymour Sarason
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption. -- Steven Sinofsky
Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream. -- George Trumbull Ladd
Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises. -- Gary Gygax
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. -- Peter Drucker

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