Assumptions Quotes
As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.
You will make a perfectly rational mistake: You will assume that sooner or later the paradigm you are presently practicing (which has been mostly successful) will solve all the rest of your problems.
Drop all those assumptions that success is built on success. Add a very little value to yourself and it will amaze you how you will see people appreciate that value!
Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, you’re blindly sauntering along.
Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection
It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.
Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.
To assume that I can even begin to chart a ‘straight’ path is probably the best way I can take myself ‘straight’ to the very place I don’t want to go.
The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.
Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.
A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.
The road itself tells us far more than signs do.
He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.
I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.
Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.
If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.
Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.
God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.
(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.
Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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.
Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.
Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.
