Quotes by Assumption Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world. Aaron Huey assumptionphotographyworld Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now. Aaron Levie assumptiondoneway 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. Aberjhani individualassumptionblack Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves. Adrienne Rich assumptionknows motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power. Adrienne Rich meshassumptionmotherhood Assumptions are dangerous things. Agatha Christie dangerous-thingsdangerousassumption 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. Agatha Christie assumptioninformationfailing Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration. Aiden Wilson Tozer manipulationassumptionchristian And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis. Al Gore assumptionsocialearth The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests. Al Sharpton assumptionpartypeople 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 assumptionproductions The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption. Alan Dean Foster dead-peopleassumptionpeople Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. Alan Lightman conflictassumptionuniverse Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong. Albert Einstein assumptionmade It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power. Albert J. Nock assumptionsocialgiving To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions. Albert Mohler assumptionstructuresurprise I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. Aleksandar Hemon assumptionliteraturewriting Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities. Alexander Hamilton constitutionassumptionexercise 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. Alice Sebold assumptionsafeworld SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. Ambrose Bierce logicassumptionscience1234567891011»
