Assumptions Quotes

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of...

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, a...

Spirituality is not adopting more beliefs and assumptions but uncovering the best in you.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — bec...

A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almo...

I feel no grief for being called somethingwhichI am not;in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a g...

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every ne...

(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and...

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for a...

It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordi...

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the ...

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an oc...

A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we eit...

Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which w...

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light w...

Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary a...

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. ...

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative pote...

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CE...

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

Gytha Ogg, you wouldn’t be a witch if you couldn’t jump to conclusions, right?” Nanny nodded. “Oh, y...

Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see ...