#assumption

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#faith #knowledge #opinion #presumption #faith

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#instrumentalism #problem-solving #problems

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

— Gary Becker

#criminals #different #else #everyone #had

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#attempt #buy #close #could #day

I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#assumptions #become #days #early #edit

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#around #assumptions #everyone #expectations #film

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#assumptions #conviction #must #ready #stick

If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels. ↗

— Fred Ward

#answer #assumption #fact #feels #her

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

#confined #deal #education #forces #fundamental

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. ↗

— George Eliot

#simplicity #life