Best 323 quotes in «assumption quotes» category

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!

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?

The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation.

The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.

The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation.

The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.

The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen.

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed 'window of vulnerability,' which we now know not to exist.

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.

The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to-- ironically-fait h!

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.

There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.

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.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.