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A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

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

All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.

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

Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As we know now, that assumption was wrong; none of us is a stranger to environmental problems.

Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy.

Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is no longer the case. The United States is once more an oil exporter. Available and accessible reserves of oil and natural gas in North America are far greater than was once believed. Yet the assumption that the Persian Gulf still qualifies as crucial to American national security persists in Washington. Why?

Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.

And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus.

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.

Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

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

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness.

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.

Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem.

Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.

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

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however, on many untested, and in some cases untestable, assumptions. Indeed, big bang cosmology has become a bandwagon of thought that reflects faith as much as objective truth.

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules and assumptions of our civilizations.

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.

But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

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.

Despite all the boosterish talk of globalization breaking down barriers, most writers in Anglo-America are still working within the nationalist assumptions of their traditionally powerful societies.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance of such cathode rays is clearly presupposed to be necessary...and this assumption is untenable.

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

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

Economics has increasingly become the science of human behavior in general, and it's all the more unlikely to think that it can possibly be value-free - and, in fact, it isn't. Economics rests on un-argued assumptions that need to be examined.

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

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.