Quotes by Assumption The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation. Vilayat Inayat Khan individual being-me assumption Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct. Walter Darby Bannard presumptuous confidence assumption Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions. Wassily Leontief arbitrary assumption pages We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. Wassily Leontief arbitrary assumption moving Tolerance is the assumption of superiority Wendell Willkie superiority tolerance assumption If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk. Wendell Berry resolution assumption winning 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. Wendell Berry assumption past needs Sometimes experience trumps assumption. Whoopi Goldberg trump assumption sometimes The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. Will Durant snares assumption acceptance The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. William Hazlitt merit assumption genius In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. William Lyon Phelps assumption three business The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. William of Ockham occams-razor explanation assumption What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things. William of Ockham fewer assumption The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes. William Poundstone paradox assumption grandfather Assume a virtue if you have it not. William Shakespeare assumption assuming memorable Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities. Frances Moore Lappé assumption views world «345678910111213
