Assumption Quotes - Page 7

The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.

The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!

Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.

Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.

All depends really on what kinds of assumptions you make. When you're forecasting things that will be happening 50 to 100 years in the future, it's really hard to predict what's going to happen that far out, so you have to make a bunch of assumptions.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.

I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.