Assuming Quotes

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.

Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.

As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.

Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions.

I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.

Why assume that to look is to see?

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank?

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His creatures and make Him no God at all.

Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.

I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.

I think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive.

You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.

I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

The biggest mistake people make is assuming that their dogs think like little humans, and that they can negotiate behavior with them, but it doesn't work that way.

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.