#assumption

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#assumptions #cannot #contrary #existence #fact

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. ↗

— Hugh Kingsmill

#alike #alive #assumption #based #everyone

If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions. ↗

— Miguel Ruiz

#life #wisdom #communication

The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic. ↗

— David Miliband

#assumptions #bad #britain #children #class

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#assumption #because #been #english #her

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#assumption #biology #chemistry #incorrect #meets

Differences challenge assumptions. ↗

— Anne Wilson Schaef

#challenge #differences

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#darkness #derived #god #hypothesis #immediate

Assumptions equal a loss of pride and the sting of defeat. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#assumptions #defeat #equality

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#close-mindedness #intelligence #isaac-asimov #knowledge #open-mind