#assumptions

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A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.


Vera Nazarian


#disaster #disasters #earthquake #forge #insight

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.


Gary Becker


#alone #analysis #assumptions #behavior #implications

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.


Sherman Alexie


#be careful #because #box #brown #browns

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.


David Brin


#been #both #both sides #contact #encounter

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.


Walter Kaufmann


#assumptions #cannot #contrary #existence #fact

If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.


Miguel Ruiz


#life #wisdom #communication

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.


Robert Nozick


#assumptions #been #describe #embodies #even

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.


Ronald Heifetz


#status-quo #change

Lahat ng mga salitang yan may dating sa'yo. Sabi kasi ng isip mo.


Bob Ong


#impact #mind #words #dating

Assumptions equal a loss of pride and the sting of defeat.


Donna Lynn Hope


#assumptions #defeat #equality