#assumption

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. ↗

— George MacDonald

#appreciate #assumptions #body #demon #disease

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#before #had #inquiries #inquiry #jurist

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#bugged #conversations #i #just #operate

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#believe #break #capable #constantly #different

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#bruise #ego #false #i #proceed

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#basically #company #every #out #start-up

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#because #claims #clash #connections #empirical

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

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#assumptions #body #calculating #changed #data

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#assumption #because #bladder #contend #difficult