Assumptions Quotes
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A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
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Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.
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I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.
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Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required.
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I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.
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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
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My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.
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Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
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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.
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A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.
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My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.
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We have an awful lot of assumptions that these numbers hold a certain amount of magic, when they really are a snapshot, ... Why are we elevating these narrow scores and thinking they show so much?
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Beware of economists who hide assumptions.
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People make a lotof stupid assumptions about me when they hear my name.
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Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world.
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Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.
