Assumption Quotes

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

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

People, please remember that I choose my words very carefully. Assumptions are your enemy.

My assumption is I'm not going to be recognized. But when I am, I'm like, "Dang, you know who I am?" I always think I look so different.

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline.

Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus on spending time that you begin to use your time effectively.

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

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

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

To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.

I hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing I am choosing to be with that person.

The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.

when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

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

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.

The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.

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

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.