Assumption Quotes - Page 26

• 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

  Black, Individual, Mainstream

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• In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds.

  Philip Johnson

  Scary, Intellectual, Doctrine

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• There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

  Noam Chomsky

  Information, May, Debate

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.39, Metropolitan Books

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• Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Country, Art

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• Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

  Robert Grudin

  Creativity, Ideas, Rejection

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Heart, Reality

  Durant Drake, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, James Bissett Pratt, Arthur Kenyon Rogers, George Santayana (1920). “Essays in critical realism: a co-operative study of the problem of knowledge”

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• Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Equality, Opposites

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• I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.

  Seth Rogen

  Oscars, Voters, Taste

  "Seth Rogen Talks Hosting the 2012 Spirit Awards, THE APOCALYPSE, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS 2, His Favorite Films of the Year, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It wasobviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.

  William Howard Taft

  War, Roots, Taft

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• A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Past, Men, Long

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• So dogma, doctrine, unexamined assumptions, that's what it is to be sharing that, the hippies shadow, no way of grounding it to reality. It's where we're just cut off from reality unless we can argue, we can substantiate, we can justify, we can convince each other.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Hippie, Cutting, Reality

  "What Do We Have To Teach Plato?". "Here And Now" with Jeremy Hobson, news.stlpublicradio.org. April 22, 2014.

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• I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.

  Ruth Negga

  Thinking, Mouths, Want

  "Ethiopian-Irish Actress Ruth Negga Believes Her Heritage Is Negatively Affecting Her Career" by Emmanuel Akitobi, www.indiewire.com. September 03, 2012.

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• We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work

  James Fallows

  Reality, Class, Long

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• There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.

  Meg Ryan

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.

  H. Ned Seelye

  Groups, Degrees, Culture

  H. Ned Seelye (1995). “Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Drama, Sadness, World

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• We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.

  David Limbaugh

  Integrity, Constitution, Bailouts

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

  Philip Selznick

  Responsibility, Simple, Excellence

  Attributed to Selznick in "Everyone Leads" by Kobi Yamada, ‎Dan Zadra, ‎Steve Potter, 2003.

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• It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness, yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.

  Anthony Storr

  Running, Creative, Kind

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Thinking, Judging

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1997.

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• Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Children, Women, Home

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• We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.

  Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  Men, Order, Data

  Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Roger Lewin (1996). “Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind”, Wiley

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• People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.

  William Eckhardt

  Lying, Views, People

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• The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!

  Astro Teller

  Fallacy, Humans

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