Quotes on assumptions
By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
Fuller, Richard Buckminster
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
Author, Unknown
Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
Bujold, Lois McMaster
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such
Author, Unknown
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
Author, Unknown
When a child has reached manhood, he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.
Goldman, Emma
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
Gardner, John W.
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means...[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legenda
Author, Unknown
"Modern economics" is founded on 200 year-old bankrupt assumptions.
Author, Unknown
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
Sales, John