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Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

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

Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

We all dream; it is a mystery in which all humankind participates.  I realize this is an assumption, but it is one that I have no qualms in asserting as fact: the dream is an experiential universal for humanity.

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.

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

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.

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

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

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

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.

We tend to speak of sin in very personal and individual terms. Jeremiah does not downplay that, but he also sees how a whole society can be bound up in the tentacles of sin, in the assumptions that everybody around you makes, about how it becomes easier to sin than not to, and how we can become so confused and contradictory in our reactions, when sin is pointed out.

We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.

What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

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.

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.

Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.

When you speak openly and honestly, you won't have to make assumptions. The day you stop making assumptions, you will communicate cleanly and clearly, and achieve impeccability with your word.

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.

When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or text work. Because they look quite big there's this assumption that there isn't much editing, but that's a huge part of it.

You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.

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

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.

Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.

You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption

Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay.

A judgement results from some kind of consideration of the evidences available and is always better than an assumption!

A lot of people, especially psychoanalysts, assume that happiness can only be found in a couple - but not all of us are made for a relationship.

Assuming things is the equivalent of sleepwalking blindfolded on a cliff edge fully expecting a safety net to be there to break the fall should you topple over the precipice. In one moment, a leap of logic becomes a fall from grace.

Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.

Assuming can trip us up in other ways too. It can stop us seeing people for who they really are and make us lose sight of the people we know.