Top 1200 False Assumptions Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I have always respected the freedom of expression. But the dissemination of false information is lamentable and subject to criminal penalties.

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our own time. ? The hallmark of this attitude is its sense that the certitudes and unshakable basic assumptions of former ages have been swept away, that they have been tested and found wanting, that they have been discredited as cheap and somewhat childish illusions.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

Where conservative Catholics have the power to resist what seem like false ideas or disastrous innovations they must do so.

We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist, is to re-describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create new paradigms for the future.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

Women notice details that most men don't. They notice if your belt and shoes match. They notice what kinds of foods you like to eat. They notice all the details, then make assumptions about every other area of your life based on these details.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

There's this false notion that this is a regional phenomenon, when in fact every state in the union has hardcore rednecks. No exceptions.

If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography.

Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.

If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

To say the U.S. government is targeting U.S. persons, to listen to their phone calls and read their emails, is just false.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

The Left doesn't realize that unless you create a formative culture and a critical consciousness capable of changing the way people think about the common sense assumptions that drive their lives, then you've got an ideological foundation for totalitarianism that not only destroys the capacity to think critically, it destroys the capacity to have convictions at all.

Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of the same shortcoming - and I hope that, one of these days, someone will claim that my book, while it goes in a salutary expansive direction, doesn't go far enough, that there are assumptions I make that show I've missed aspects of Mann's irony and ambiguity.

Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however, on many untested, and in some cases untestable, assumptions. Indeed, big bang cosmology has become a bandwagon of thought that reflects faith as much as objective truth.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.

It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.

People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

Nothing has really made me upset aside from the baseless, false accusations of PED use.

The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.

I had these false ambitions - marketing and MBA. I didn't do very badly at it, but I realised my calling was something else.

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.

Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative assumptions. And when our worst hopes are proven to be true, love makes every effort to deal with them and move forward. As much as possible, love focuses on the positive.

Every role is a potential lover. I ask: Are they someone I want to wake up to in the morning and go to bed with at night? Do they question my assumptions about life? Consume me to distraction? Make my cry, then clown to make me laugh again? If I say yes, then it's all I need.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

I have Peter O'Toole's autograph on a first-edition copy of his autobiography that I acquired under false pretenses.

I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.

Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.

The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.