Assumptions Are Dangerous Quotes

#1. Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

David Baldacci

#2. Assumptions are dangerous things.

Agatha Christie

#3. Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

Robert Grudin

#4. A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. proudly. "One of the most dangerous assumptions we tend to repeatedly make is that of final achievement. There is never final achievement One Like Jade. There is completion within cycles, which only leads us to another set of cycles at a slightly higher level.

Denise Le Fay

#6. It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

Harold Bloom

#7. Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Salman Rushdie

#8. Modernist discourse [ ... ] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.

Phillip E. Johnson

#9. Prophetic preaching is dangerous work, not only because it has a subversive edge but because it requires an epistemological break with the assumed world of dominant imagination. This epistemological break makes us aware of our assumptions we have not recognized or reflected upon.

Walter Brueggemann

#10. We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

David Platt