Disciplines Quotes


The narrower the mind, the broader the statement. Ted Cook Assumptions 210
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again. Karl Popper Assumptions 101
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact. Edward W. Howe Assumptions 94
There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed. Sir Alfred Jules Ayer Assumptions 92
Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason. Marcus Aurelius Assumptions 92
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development. Alexander Herzen Assumptions 89
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. Oliver Wendell Holmes Assumptions 89
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four. Samuel Johnson Assumptions 86
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. Abraham Maslow Assumptions 82
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. Abraham Joshua Heschel Assumptions 79
The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Assumptions 79
Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin helping them. Such a world does not exist -- never has. Gerda Lerner Assumptions 79
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. Edward W. Howe Assumptions 77
I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Assumptions 77
If there were no bad speculations there could be no good investments; if there were no wild ventures there would be no brilliantly successful enterprises. F. W. Hirst Assumptions 77
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. Edith Hamilton Assumptions 75
Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions. Don Miguel Ruiz Assumptions 68
You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. Denis Waitley Assumptions 68
My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King. Tavis Smiley Assumptions 68
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg Assumptions 67
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. Denis Diderot Assumptions 67
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. Jean Rostand Assumptions 66
A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability. Albert Einstein Assumptions 58
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. Marshall McLuhan Assumptions 57
Choose an attitude of wonderment, taking in all that is being said without assuming you already know what the speaker is talking about. Let go of jumping ahead to finish his or her thoughts. In order to learn you have to risk change...changing your mind! Dwight Frindt Assumptions 56
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg Assumptions 56
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. William Hazlitt Assumptions 53
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. Ruth Hubbard Assumptions 52
The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package. Julie Bishop Assumptions 51
It is theory that decides what can be observed. Albert Einstein Assumptions 49
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. Hosea Ballou Assumptions 47
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. John Sales Assumptions 46
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. Bernard Baruch Assumptions 44
Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. William Pitt Assumptions 38
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. Andre Gide Assumptions 38
The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing. James Newman Assumptions 29
Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. Michel de Montaigne Assumptions 26

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