Assumption Quotes

I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.

Progress is a set of assumptions.

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.

We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith .

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to hit me. And I ride on that assumption.

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

If you never assume importance, you never lose it.

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.

If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.

The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation.

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.

The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

Assumptions are what we don't know we are making

Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions.

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline.

The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.