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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
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
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
The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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[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
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 dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.
— David Platt
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
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
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
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
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
— Gary Becker
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
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 vectoris 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
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
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
