Assumptions Quotes
Assumptions Quote of the day
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.
You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.
A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
The habit of mobility had become ingrained.
Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.
(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.
Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.
In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.
You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.
You’re going to listen to me, and for once you’re going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren’t there.
Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.
True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.
You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.
Don’t build roadblocks out of assumptions.
When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation.
It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.
There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.
Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded.
Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.
That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.
Problems don’t actually exist. They’re just the hallucinogenic effects of people being weirded out on what they think life is supposed to be.
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.
Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.
Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions
I’ve always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event.” “Why would you ever think that?
Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.
A judgement results from some kind of consideration of the evidences available and is always better than an assumption!
They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.
Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.
TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: "It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk.