Assumption Quotes - Page 30

• Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophy, Greek, Islam

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.

  Phil Keoghan

  Thinking, Terrible

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of obstacles in my life because of it, and to some degree, I have. However, the most difficult obstacle to overcome is other people's perception of who a person with a disability is.

  Greg Walloch

  People, Perception, Overcoming

  "Greg Walloch Comedian, Storyteller, and Eat Your Words Host". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Opportunity, Musical, Foundation

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• There is an assumption if you are not religious, you have fallen, or you are further from God, or you are not doing the right thing. The judgment on me, with regard to my changes, is that he must be out all night partying or banging prostitutes and doing blow. This whole thing for me was absolutely the contrary. It was actually that God started to become very real to me, inside.

  Matisyahu

  Religious, Real, Party

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taken, Animal, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.37, 谷月社

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• There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture.

  George Saunders

  Self, Ceilings, Culture

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.

  Red Haircrow

  Life, Hate, Welcome

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• The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.

  Tim Jackson

  Country, Growth, Quality

  Tim Jackson (2016). “Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow”, p.21, Taylor & Francis

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• It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its origins to an act of faith that the universe can be rationally interpreted, and that science today is sustained by that assumption.

  Loren Eiseley

  Littles, Today, Paradox

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• The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Being Me, Individual, Limitation

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• The key question companies need to address is not 'Should we make mistakes?' but rather 'Which mistakes should we make in order to test our deeply held assumptions?'

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Mistake, Keys, Order

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Of course, it is worth it to take the time to think carefully through your assumptions, and ensure you at least have hypotheses around how you will create value. But use the analysis as a way to focus attention on the most critical assumptions, rather than spend a ton of time massaging the numbers.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Thinking, Numbers, Focus

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I noticed that the work of my non - I noticed that the work of my friends who were white and male, specifically, existed in a type of freedom that was not bound by certain political questions and assumptions and locations.

  Kehinde Wiley

  White, Political, Males

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this experience, you have to really go back to the fundamentals.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Teaching, People

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Media, Way

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• My lazy, unfair assumption is that everything's easier when you're young and stunning. And maybe it is! But I'd like to see for myself.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Lazy, Unfair, Easier

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, May, Certain

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• There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

  Anthony Bourdain

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Thinking, Ku Klux Klan

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• If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Political

  University of Michigan Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Believe, Thug

  "Stanley Strangelove". Review of "A Clockwork Orange" in January 1972. "Deeper into Movies". Book by Pauline Kael, www.visual-memory.co.uk. 1973.

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• The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.

  Deborah Tannen

  Party, Thinking, Ideas

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• Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant.

  Edith Hamilton

  Past, Ideas, Giving

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• There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Weakness, Ears, Skeptic

  Margaret Oliphant (1876). “Phoebe, Junior0: A Last Chronicle of Carlingford : in Two Volumes”, p.40

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