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#assumptions

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #assumptions




Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.


George Eliot


#simplicity #life

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the 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

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.


E. T. Bell


#argument #assumptions #euclid #examine #me

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.


John Spratt


#big #equipment #iraqi #iraqi people #liberators

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

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

We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.


Ann Richards


#away #challenges #economic #fit #living

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.


Callie Khouri


#assumptions #characters #complex #everyone #i

My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.


Tavis Smiley


#dr #form #get #hear #helping

When assumptions were made that I was going to bail out there was a little part of my brain that thought 'I am going to do to prove them wrong'. In the end that wouldn't be coming from my heart and doing what was right.


Craig Stevens


#assumptions #bail #brain #coming #doing






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