Assumption Quotes
-
Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.
-
My assumption was that people are already motivated to go to a fitness class. That's who I am. I was already ready to go out there and get to class. All I needed was a search tool. But it turns out people need more than that, and that's why gym memberships exist.
-
Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
-
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
-
Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.
-
The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.
-
Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as the new medium of electronic textuality vibrantly asserts its presence, are these assumptions clearly coming into view.
-
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
-
People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.
-
Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.
-
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
-
A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
-
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?
-
But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.
-
There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.
-
One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't friends - we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis's door and declared in unison, 'We don't think we're suitable for the part.'
-
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
-
... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of government policy so that devoting more resources to one use inevitably detracts from availability for another.
-
Every one of these claims embodies a metaphysical assumption, and science, since its very method presupposes them, could not possibly defend them without arguing in a circle. Their defense is instead a task for metaphysics, and for philosophy more generally; and scientism is shown thereby to be incoherent.
-
Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
-
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
-
Never assume the obvious is true.
-
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
-
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context.
