Assumption Quotes - Page 2

Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions.

One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

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.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to-- ironically-fait h!

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous.

My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.

What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.