Assumption Quotes - Page 6

We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

(On soft launches) It allows you to test your assumptions and see which ones you got right, and more, importantly, which ones you got wrong. A big hard launch is expensive. Getting even one thing wrong can force you to go out of business.

Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions.

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.

It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness, yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.

I hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing I am choosing to be with that person.

I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware of something is to be aware of it as something. This short circuit between "awareness of" and "awareness as" inhibits the project of self-understanding because it perpetuates the assumption that there is a point where being and knowing coincide.

You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made.

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption.

We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.

Don't accept excuses; totally deny the status quo.

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline.

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

People, please remember that I choose my words very carefully. Assumptions are your enemy.