Assumption Quotes - Page 4

It is always better to ask then to make an assumption.

I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.

It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its origins to an act of faith that the universe can be rationally interpreted, and that science today is sustained by that assumption.

Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.

I made the assumption, wrong of course, that conceptual analysis was a brief preliminary on the road to finding out about the nature of free will, consciousness, the self, the origin of values, and so forth.

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate the next change in paradigm for human thought.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

Progress is a set of assumptions.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.