“If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief systems will make more sense and end up causing less suffering.” IfsWorldEndsSufferingBeliefUnderstandingLogicHumbleCertaintyUncertaintyComplexityAssumptionReasoningBelief SystemsOntology Author:Moby
“An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To gain the courage to be yourself, you need to address the beliefs that are keeping you stuck where you are. What beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes are you holding onto even though they no longer enhance your life? It is possible to free yourself from worn-out beliefs and acquire ones that bring happiness, strength, and self-esteem. What we believe we may become.” NeedsBelieveMayImportantSelfBeliefGrowthAttitudeSelf EsteemEmotionalGainsAreasStuckEsteemAssumptionBeing YourselfAcquireAddressesWhere You AreWornHolding OnExaminingBelief SystemsWorn OutFree YourselfChange And GrowthEmotional Growth Author:Sue Thoele
“Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.” ShouldFactsWould BeBeliefMoralProveAcknowledgeAssumptionDependentFactualMoral Beliefs Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.” FirstsKindHas BeensImportantIdeasTurnsBeliefInterestConceptsGenuineInventionInsanityRealmsAssumptionReverseNew IdeasPriesthoodVested InterestsOld Ideas Author:Arthur Miller
“Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.” MenBodyUniverseBeliefAnimalConcernAssumptionExistential Book:The Northrop Frye Quote Book Source: The Northrop Frye Quote Book
“Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith .” MatterValuesBeliefJudgingJudgmentMeaningfulAssumptionValidity Book:On the Methodology of the Social Sciences Source: On the Methodology of the Social Sciences
“The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.” StillsChristianLawBeliefModernCenturyHabitEternalHarmonyEvolveAssumptionLaws Of NatureBelief SystemsModern Science Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.” PeopleIfsWayCountryPoliticalPoliticsBeliefChallengesLinesOpinionInformationOur CountryAssumptionDividesDisagreeViewpoints Author:Barack Obama
“There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.” SoulDiesBeliefBornAnswersAssumptionAfter Death Author:U.G. Krishnamurti
“Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.” IfsWorldDifferentRealBeliefLinesResultsUnderstoodLogicOppositesAbsolutesMathematicsEqualityCirclesAssumptionReal WorldIdenticalStraight Lines Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions about what religion is are so influenced by Protestantism - either real Protestantism or the secularized Protestantism that dominates our culture - and its assumption that beliefs are the most important thing.” ImportantRealFactsCultureBeliefHugeBuddhismTraditionImportanceImportant ThingsEnormousAssumptionHinduismPreconceptionsConfucianismProtestantism Author:Robert Neelly Bellah
“Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.” HardBeliefParticularArgumentOvercomingFundamentalsAssumptionLogicalYieldIrrationalIrrational BeliefsLogical Arguments Author:Thomas Campbell
“Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs.” MadeBeliefStuffUnderstandingViewsPiecesPicksBasesAssumptionExposedCardinalsCardinal Rules Book:The Search for Truth Source: The Search for Truth
“The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.” WarFormPoliticalBeliefCausesSimpleColdAssumptionSovietCold WarHostilePolitical Life Author:Robert Conquest
“My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about the reason for the rejection. I also found that people assume that others are like them, operating under the same knowledge, beliefs, constraints and priorities. This mirror assumption makes it easier to speculate about why others act in the way they do, but sometimes the mirror assumption is wrong.” PeopleWaySometimesReasonFoundBeliefEasierResearchMirrorsAngryAssumingPrioritiesCuriousRejectionAssumptionFrustratedConstraints Author:Gary A. Klein