Assumptions Quotes
Assumptions Quote of the day
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!
The habit of mobility had become ingrained.
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
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.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.
I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.
One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.
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.
Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.
We live our lives supposing things are as they appear to be when that is almost never the case.
It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.
A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand
Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.
We can change reality just from assumptions accepted as true, regardless if they could be quantifiably accepted as true through the physical
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.
Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, you’re blindly sauntering along.
I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me.
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded.
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.
That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.
There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.
Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.
Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection
A judgement results from some kind of consideration of the evidences available and is always better than an assumption!
We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?
You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
I’ve always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event.” “Why would you ever think that?
Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.
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.
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.
Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.
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.
Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions
Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.
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.
In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.
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.
Spirituality is not adopting more beliefs and assumptions but uncovering the best in you.
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!
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.
