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Last updated on April 18, 2025.
Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.
There's this assumption that as an actor, Hollywood is always the end point, but I never thought along those lines.
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.
The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.
There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way.
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.
I studied psychology and sociology. I think my assumption was that I would go to graduate school, and I don't know what I was going to do after that.
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.
Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.
We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.
I think that there's always an assumption, when a band goes on hiatus or stops playing, that there's some acrimony brewing under the surface.
It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.
There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.
Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.
There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
I conduct all my nighttime activities under the assumption that my wife is awake, that she never falls asleep.
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.
It's "a 'disorder of "assumption"' - the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically.
The American public recognizes truth versus assumption, presumptions, and the personal opinions of witnesses without firsthand knowledge.
My lazy, unfair assumption is that everything's easier when you're young and stunning. And maybe it is! But I'd like to see for myself.
Kyoya: I don't like this food. But do you think I'd be so inhuman as to complain after you treated me? That's a rude assumption.
The assumption that the square of a unit vector
is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic
quantities are non-associative.
Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.
I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.
After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.
It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.
There's a palpable frustration with the assumption that everyone who's under the age of 25 has got the attention span of a gnat and isn't interested in events and ideas.
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.
People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.
A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.
I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
Every generation thinks they invented sex, which is the stupidest assumption in the world because if that was the case, you wouldn't even be here.
If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.
Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.
Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption
and watch the world play its part
relative to to its fulfillment.
There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture.
There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.
