Assumption Quotes - Page 3

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

Don't make assumptions.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private enterprise and maximum economic growth.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments

Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.

It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do

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.

We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.

If you never assume importance, you never lose it.

Meet every person with the assumption that they are your equal.

Test everything, including assumptions

You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus.

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.

Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.