Assumption Quotes

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

Written with courage and passion, this is a book whose often counterintuitive clarity shakes entombed assumptions like an earthquake.

Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.