115 Assumption Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Hope Assumption Would Would-Be Advance True Accepted Little Worked Really

A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged. Harry Browne

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This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. Carter G. Woodson

Life Education Leadership Religion Matters Assumption Ghetto Possible Must Make Forces Deal Uplift Confined Social Then Fundamental Things

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. E. O. Wilson

Faith Science Matter Will Every Assumption Relentlessly About Part Blind Blind Faith How Test Passionately Condition Human Human Condition Expressed Suffice

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority. Steven Biko

Evil Arrogant Nothing Petty Assumption Both Majority Obviously Foreigners Clique Decide Grand Apartheid Justify Lives Right

I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption? Carlton Cuse

Researchers may like to think that, given all the facts, we make rational choices. Ask economists how that assumption works out for them. No, we are emotional creatures who use value-based reasoning in conjunction with our rationality. Kyle Hill

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All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.' Max Weber

There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. Warren E. Burger

Instead of trying to group people into something and have this one assumption, get to know someone for who they are. I guess a lot of people are really lazy to start getting to know people or make that effort. Amber Liu

People Group Assumption Guess Someone Something Lazy Instead Know Make Lot Effort Get Trying Getting Really Who Start

Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life. Aminatta Forna

Life You Woman Writing Coffee Country Own Assumption Complete Everyone Project Sierra Sierra Leone Crop About Writer Hot Wrote She Talking Coming Owns Plantation Who Her Thinks

Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike folks as sorcery, and Martin Amis's 'Time's Arrow' wrecked my assumption that all narratives had to proceed from Then to More-Recently-Than-Then. Anthony Doerr

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There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way. Ariel Levy

I came up in a time where the assumption was, in the '60s and '70s, where the federal government was a great agent of progressive social change, it was the intervener in the best sense, and it would come and address injustice forthrightly. Bill de Blasio

For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish. Brian Sutton-Smith

Rubbish Assumption Has-Been Adult Been Decades Children Played

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption. Bryan Cranston

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Even my parents sort of went along with the assumption that they were a good couple, but they probably weren't a very good couple. Carrie Fisher

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What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but the way people reacted when I told them I was a shop assistant - their automatic assumption that I didn't enjoy it. Charlie Brooker

People Enjoy Assumption Way About Hours Most Occasional Shop Automatic Customer Them Disliked Working Assistant

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research. Chauncey Wright

Science Experience Become Research Assumption Further Systematic Give General Direction Only Reached Until Concrete Ultimate Truths Then Inherent

I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit. Chet Faker

In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from. Clint Smith

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