Assumption Quotes

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

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

The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.

What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that this world is a world worth living in.

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

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

Don't make assumptions.

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.

It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do

we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

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

Only recently has part of America challenged the long-held assumption that America is a Christian nation. Most citizens do not recognize just how quickly we have moved in an anti-Christian direction.

Test everything, including assumptions

You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption

Assumptions are dangerous things.

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.

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

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

It is always better to ask then to make an assumption.

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

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

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

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

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.

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

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.