“Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.”

— Idries Shah, book Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Source: Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

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writer and Sufi teacher 1924–1996

Douglas McGregor (1906–1964) American professor

Source: The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), p. 33

“Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the door.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

“[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.”

Alan Alda (1936) actor and United States Army officer

Source: Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

“Any approach to the study of organizations is built on specific assumptions about the nature of organizations and how they are designed and function.”

Karl E. Weick (1936) Organisational psychologist

R.L. Daft, Karl E. Weick. "Toward a model of organizations as interpretation systems," Academy of management review, 1984.
1980s-1990s

“Your assumption, and the truth, dine at totally separate tables.”

J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer

[Specualtion and Worries on New B5 project, J. Michael Straczynski, 11 February 2004, rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, 20040217173540.19352.00001496@mb-m26.aol.com, http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated/msg/a1c75369be24e657]

“I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.”

John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author

“Whether or not your actions are determined, you have to act on the assumption that you have free will. If you are determined, your attempt at free will loses you nothing. However, if you are not determined and you act on the assumption that you are, you will never attempt anything. You will simply be a passive blob that things happen to.”

Alexei Panshin book Rite of Passage

Source: Rite of Passage (1968), Chapter 11 (p. 153).