Quotes of: Assumptions Keyword

Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.

Jim Webb

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

Terry McAuliffe

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

Monica Johnson

Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay.

Johann Hari

Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.

Rupert Sheldrake

In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.

Kim Gordon

Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship.

Divided & Conquered

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

Approaching Zion

Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.

Lean Branding

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

Mindy Kaling

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Noam Chomsky

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

James Fox

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

Evelyn Glennie

During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness that historical accounts are not direct representations of actual events; they are...

Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

Scot McKnight

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

Leonard Nimoy

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

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

Jeff Hawkins

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

Ken Burns

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

Gary Becker

Our assumptions of playing "gods" could lead to our own ignorance.

Henry Johnson Jr