Assumption Quotes
Assumption Quote of the day
Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.
Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment.
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.
Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.
Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.
Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.
It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.
Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.
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.
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.
The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?
Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules and assumptions of our civilizations.
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.
Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.
Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.
No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.
We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.
One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'
To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.
The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous.
There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?
My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.
Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.
Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.
