Best 478 quotes in «assuming quotes» category

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go by. It seems to me like that is a new piece of bad manners. Probably. Generally I assume that anything that happens now happened to Adam and Eve also.

There will instead be a number of fake opposition figures, one of whom is now probably going to be Kseniya Sobchak, which is an absurd idea. I assume she's been chosen because just even the idea of her standing for liberals so makes fun of the idea of liberals and of liberal democracy.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

The truth is a lot easier to see when you stop assuming you already have it.

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.

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

To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His creatures and make Him no God at all.

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes.

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

To put it simply, when you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a thing as good. When you say there is such a thing as good, you must assume there is a moral law by which to distinguish between good and evil.

Unfortunately there are too many examples of members of Congress and other elected officials using language, referring to your opponents in ways that you would have never done before, ascribing the worst motives to your opponents, and assuming that other Americans are the enemies. And that's just not the way it used to be. And I don't think it can be that way in the future.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret.

Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

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.

We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.

We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so much. We need to change the default.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

We assume that we’re masters of our environment, rather than being a part of it.

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

We believe that all men and women are created in the image of God. We believe that we are all equally created. So the fact of the matter is that we should assume by default that we reject the support of those who do not support the theory, the notion, the fact, that all men are created equally.

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives.

We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not.

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

We can't exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I'm assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

We don't have to go around as the Protestant reformation did, or as the socialist revolution did, and execute each other as soon as we are successful - assuming we'll ever be successful.

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.