Unfounded Assumptions Quotes

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that are not so

To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real.

The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.

If superstition enters, the brain is gone.

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

Imagination … which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions that are not immediately derived from facts ...

Errors using inadequate data are much like those using no data at all.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Superstition is the poison of the mind.

A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through life while loudly professing their amorality.

The Populist platform is almost too absurd to merit serious discussion.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty

Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.

I don't think the guys I played with have ever had a problem with me. People can make up what they want to think.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the unknown.