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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

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.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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?

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.

Executive Intelligence is about the specific skills one must have in order to succeed in senior leadership positions, i.e. the ability to evaluate underlying assumptions, recognize the likely emotional reactions of individuals, or sense a misstep and make appropriate adjustments.

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.

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.

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private enterprise and maximum economic growth.

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

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

I certainly have no regrets about overthrowing Saddam Hussein. I'd do it again. And, yes, there are a lot of things that I think we'd all do differently. Maybe we made some erroneous assumptions about the fabric of the society in Iraq and about the solidity of some of the institutions. And yes, there are a lot of things I would do differently. I'd probably work to rebuild Iraq from the outside in, rather than concentrating so much on Baghdad, for instance.

If you never assume importance, you never lose it.

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

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.