Assumption Quotes - Page 38

• Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Trying, Philosopher

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• ... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty.

  James Madison

  Government, People, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• It's not an easy option. The essence of travel is letting go of habit and prejudice and relishing the unfamiliar. Food you've never eaten before, a language you've never spoken before, religion that mystifies, customs that confuse, politics that perplex, all question everyday assumptions about how you live your life.

  Michael Palin

  Letting Go, Essence, Live Your Life

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• Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

  Dick Costolo

  Successful, Thinking, Safe

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• Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.

  Nancy Leveson

  Safety, Special, Reliability

  Nancy Leveson (1995). “SafeWare: System Safety and Computers”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

  Laurie R. King

  Possibility, Careless, Dues

  Laurie R. King (2005). “Locked Rooms: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes”, p.279, Bantam

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• Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.

  Jacques Barzun

  Cutting, Air, Symphony

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• The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.

  Robert Conquest

  War, Simple, Political

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• White people don't have that problem, they get to go through life never having to fit into a box, and it's really more so true for white men because even just being a woman, you sort of have to walk around other people's assumptions of you and it's so exhausting and there's a sense, especially among young people of wanting to just live your life, not having to wear the weight of that pressure - pressure that people of color feel, that gay people of color feel, that women of color feel.

  Justin Simien

  Gay, Men, White

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

  Phil Elvrum

  Thinking, Careers, Granted

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• The assumption that the square of a unit vector
  is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic
  quantities are non-associative.

  Cargill Gilston Knott

  Squares, Unity, Vectors

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• Invite people into your life who don't look or act like you. You might find they challenge your assumptions and make you grow.

  Mellody Hobson

  People, Challenges, Looks

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• Supporters of the war are constantly asking those who oppose it: Why don't you deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side? The answer, so far as I am concerned, is that I do deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side. But I am responsible for the wrongs and atrocities committed by our side. And I am no longer able to participate in the assumption that atrocities committed by remote control are less objectionable than those committed at arm's length. I am most concerned with American obstacles to peace because I am an American.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Atrocities Committed, Asking

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• My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about the reason for the rejection. I also found that people assume that others are like them, operating under the same knowledge, beliefs, constraints and priorities. This mirror assumption makes it easier to speculate about why others act in the way they do, but sometimes the mirror assumption is wrong.

  Gary A. Klein

  Mirrors, People, Rejection

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• Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Waiting, Tomorrow

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• I use my work as catharsis. That's often the best thing that we can do, is to allow ourselves to rage because it's so rare that we get to. We're told to forgive - I don't want to! I don't want to forgive my abuser! I don't care to and I don't like that assumption that forgiveness makes me a better person. It's not authentic to me, my feelings and what I need. But everyone has their own way.

  Margaret Cho

  Feelings, Forgiving, Catharsis

  Source: nytlive.nytimes.com

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• Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Excellent, Reasoning

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• Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

  Milton Friedman

  Bizarre, Theory

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• Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Patient, Tomorrow, Reasonable

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• A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a deity. This is far from being the case. If, as I hold, there is no good reason to believe that a god either created or presides over this world, there is equally no good reason to believe that a god created or presides over the next world, on the unlikely supposition that such a thing exists.

  A.J. Ayer

  Believe, Afterlife, World

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• As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory. The theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the 'truth' of the theory lies.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Data, Numbers

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• We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble.

  W. Brian Arthur

  Real, Doe, Way

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• One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.

  Lester Thurow

  Long, Economics, Psychologist

  Lester C. Thurow (1984). “Dangerous currents: the state of economics”, Vintage

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• Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.

  Richard Serra

  Determination, Art, People

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• Interrogate yours hidden assumptions

  Cornel West

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