Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Assumption

Quotes about: Assumption

• Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Democracy, Assumption

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

• Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Animal, Men, Wisest Man

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.277, Macmillan

• Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Motivational, Memories, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Assignment in Eternity”, Pocket Books

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