Quotes by Assumption 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? Stephen Fry assumptionatheismbelieve We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them. Stephen Vizinczey assumptionculturepeople ...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so. Steve Allen assumptionshouldreligion When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or text work. Because they look quite big there's this assumption that there isn't much editing, but that's a huge part of it. Sue Tompkins assumptioneditinglooks There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic. Susan Jeffers assumptionrealitynegative 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. Susan Sarandon assumptionhateknowing I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there. Sylvia Porter affairassumptionpeople Ignorance is brought about by assumption. T. D. Jakes assumptionignorance That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true. Susan Sontag assumptionzerocommunity I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged. Terry McAuliffe assumptionphonesconversation Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds. Terence McKenna assumptionour-worldworld Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds Thomas Hardy assumptiondeedsperfect Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. Thomas Huxley chemistryassumptionsometimes Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized. Thomas Sowell assumptiongovernmentlittles The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction. Thomas Sowell assumptionofficemoving When someone new walks into a room, the first thing we notice about that person is probably their gender. And the second things is what they're wearing. And based on what they're wearing, we start making certain assumptions about them. Tim Gunn assumptionroomsfirsts The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean. Timothy Morton derridaassumptiontalking The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. Tony Hoare assumptionformaljobs The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. Ulrich Beck secular-societyassumptionovercoming A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book. Ursula K. Le Guin demandassumptionbook«345678910111213»
