Assumption Quotes
As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.
Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea
There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way.
But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.
The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.
What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.
I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface.
It's not always going to cost money to turn a parish into a more welcoming parish. But it does take a willingness to change a lot of assumptions.
I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.
We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.
I sort of feel we have to owe some respect to the process and owe some respect to the electorate and the people who voted Donald Trump, on the assumption that they have something to teach us.
The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.
There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.
Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is the underlying assumption they have that the basis of a market is mutual aid.
We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.
There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.
We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.
There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.
It is a dangerous assumption to say that people who drain energy "don't know what they are doing." People are sophisticated aware beings. Don't sit around and equivocate; they'll drain you more.
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.
People are under the assumption that the kundalini just flows from the base of the spine up. That's not the case at all. Kundalini also flows downward.
Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture.
Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly reject that assumption - that John Ashcroft is a openminded, inclusive person.
The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.
I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.
If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.
I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave.
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.
The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast.
Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.
My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge - and maybe even stronger.
The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.
If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.
My lazy, unfair assumption is that everything's easier when you're young and stunning. And maybe it is! But I'd like to see for myself.
It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.