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Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre. — Milton Friedman

The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous. — Richard Thaler

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

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

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now. — Aaron Levie

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation. — Esperanza Spalding

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong. — Benjamin N. Cardozo

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

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. — John Sayles

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man. — Robert Ardrey

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter. — Molly Ringwald

Never assume the obvious is true. — William Safire

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption. — Alan Dean Foster

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

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels. — Mortimer Adler

It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption — C. West Churchman

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

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong. — Robert Ringer

Don't accept excuses; totally deny the status quo. — Hiroyuki Hirano

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

An assumption is something you don't know you're making." DOUGLAS ADAMS — Nick Webb

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. — Will Durant

The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. — C.S. Lewis

It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions,
not repeated assessment of their validity. — Edward De Bono

Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds. — Terence McKenna

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

The persecuting spirit has its origin ... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. — John Fiske

Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists. — Henry Giroux

The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science. — Frank Olvera

While a trend shown in the past is a fact, a "future trend" is only an assumption. — Benjamin Graham

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. — Peter Gay

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. — Isaac Asimov

Beware of economists who hide assumptions. — Anat R. Admati

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception. — Kathleen Hall Jamieson

The view that all mental processes are necessarily physical processes is a metaphysical assumption, not a scientific fact. — Dalai Lama XIV

You can only know what you know. Belief is not the same as knowledge. Belief is an assumption of knowledge despite a lack of evidence. — Todd Lockwood

The assumption now is that the interests of the brand and of the game overlap to the degree that cricket need hardly be mentioned. — Gideon Haigh

Live with the assumption that every day it will rain. If it does, you were right. If it doesn't, you were fortunate. — Zack W. Van

You can't get a personal computer to work without Windows (this is under the assumption you can actually get Windows to work). — Steven B. Green

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other. — Christina Baker Kline

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable. — Paul Broca

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability. — David Platt

If you assume you are better than someone,
you make yourself relies on that assumption. — Toba Beta

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better. — David Baldacci

You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption — Herbert W. Armstrong

When in doubt, always act on the assumption that people are more honorable than you have any solid reason for supposing they are. — Aldous Huxley

..humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth. — Walter Ralston Martin

Without the assumption that an advantage will be long-lived, the urgency of an organization to move quickly increases. — Rita Gunther McGrath

Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

MOST OF US make a basic and reasonable assumption about sanity: we think it produces good results, and we believe insanity is a problem. — S. Nassir Ghaemi

I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface. — Carrie Brownstein

Bosch always thought that if you started with the assumption that murder is an unreasonable action, then how could there ever be a fully — Michael Connelly

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

The Latter, I can tell, is added for my benefit. An assumption that the elderly cannot help but be impressed by the old fashioned. — Kate Morton

Know-it-alls are always skeptical of new information because they operate on the assumption that there is no information that is new to them. — Jeremy Scott

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

Silence equals death, we'd say. And underneath that would be the assumption - the fear - that death equaled silence. — David Levithan

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. — David Levithan

I challenged that assumption by returning to a full, productive life. I had behaved, Nichols said, "as if death was an option". — Lance Armstrong

Experience trumps Assumption! — Pippa Sloane

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it. — Clive James

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning? — Seymour Sarason

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? — David Byrne

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making. — Douglas Adams

Theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. — Milton Friedman

It's a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike. — Sue Grafton

Sadly, I don't think books ever sell based on your name alone - the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong! — Jane Green

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true. — Siri Hustvedt

Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation. — Sara Sheridan

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you. — James Cromwell

The bad-boy label is just an assumption. — Russell Brand

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

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else. — Gary Becker

Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all. They are actually excited about it. — Jamie Johnson

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making. — Douglas Adams

Whenever we have more than we need, our natural assumption will be that it's for our own consumption. — Andy Stanley

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

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

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

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

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up. — Angelo Donghia

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class. — Betty Friedan

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

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

Don't blame others for your assumption of their actions; the best resolution is to simply ask. — A.R. Voss

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

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. — Stephen Grosz

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

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. — Robert A. Heinlein

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? — Haruki Murakami

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle. — Hugh Nibley

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge. — Mahatma Gandhi

Meet every person with the assumption that they are your equal. — Julian Burnside

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

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven. — Monica Johnson

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

Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand. — Theodore Roscoe