#assumption

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens. ↗

— Eduard Hanslick

#assumption #awakens #beautiful #been #course

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. ↗

— Orville Wright

#advance #assumption #hope #little #really

Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself. ↗

— Phillip Mann

#criticism #culture #mystery #prejudice #the-unknown

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ↗

— Alan Alda

#awhile #begin #challenging #come #every

The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#australian #billion #clean #coming #concern

There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight. ↗

— Gray Davis

#based #best #build #end #here

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. ↗

— David Brin

#been #both #both sides #contact #encounter

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. ↗

— Ken Burns

#assumptions #challenge #diaries #evidence #history

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. ↗

— Peter Gay

#assumption #developed #freud #fundamentally #human

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

#analogous #appetites #assumption #being #digestions