Top Assumption Quotes Collection

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Image of Laurie R. King
Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.
- Laurie R. King
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Image of Adrienne Rich
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
- Adrienne Rich
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Image of Richard Harris
All depends really on what kinds of assumptions you make. When you're forecasting things that will be happening 50 to 100 years in the future, it's really hard to predict what's going to happen that far out, so you have to make a bunch of assumptions.
- Richard Harris
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Image of Agatha Christie
Assumptions are dangerous things.
- Agatha Christie
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Image of Vilayat Inayat Khan
The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation.
- Vilayat Inayat Khan
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Image of Gerhard
If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.
- Gerhard
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Image of Russell L. Ackoff
The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.
- Russell L. Ackoff
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Image of James Cromwell
Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.
- James Cromwell
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Image of Richard Thaler
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
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Image of Herbert W. Armstrong
You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption
- Herbert W. Armstrong
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Image of William of Ockham
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
- William of Ockham
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Image of William of Ockham
What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.
- William of Ockham
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Image of Geoff Tate
Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions.
- Geoff Tate
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Image of Astro Teller
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!
- Astro Teller
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Image of Milton Sapirstein
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
- Milton Sapirstein
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Image of Julian Burnside
Meet every person with the assumption that they are your equal.
- Julian Burnside
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Image of Hiroyuki Hirano
Don't accept excuses; totally deny the status quo.
- Hiroyuki Hirano
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Image of Ray Brassier
Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware of something is to be aware of it as something. This short circuit between "awareness of" and "awareness as" inhibits the project of self-understanding because it perpetuates the assumption that there is a point where being and knowing coincide.
- Ray Brassier
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Image of Anat R. Admati
Beware of economists who hide assumptions.
- Anat R. Admati
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Image of Alain Badiou
Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
- Alain Badiou
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Image of Miguel Angel Ruiz
When you speak openly and honestly, you won't have to make assumptions. The day you stop making assumptions, you will communicate cleanly and clearly, and achieve impeccability with your word.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Image of Miguel Angel Ruiz
It is always better to ask then to make an assumption.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Image of Cornel West
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
- Cornel West
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Image of Ashleigh Brilliant
Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
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Image of Miguel Angel Ruiz
Don't make assumptions.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Image of Scott Adams
Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.
- Scott Adams
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Image of Anthony Bourdain
There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.
- Anthony Bourdain
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Image of Albert Mohler
To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.
- Albert Mohler
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Image of Henry Giroux
Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.
- Henry Giroux
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Image of Albert Einstein
Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
- Albert Einstein
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Image of Milton Friedman
Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.
- Milton Friedman
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Image of Whoopi Goldberg
Sometimes experience trumps assumption.
- Whoopi Goldberg
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Image of R. Buckminster Fuller
You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Image of Isaac Asimov
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.
- Isaac Asimov
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Image of Douglas Adams
Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.
- Douglas Adams
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Image of Douglas Adams
Assumptions are what we don't know we are making
- Douglas Adams
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