Quotes About Assumption

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

My honest opinion, and this is only my opinion and I don't know this as fact, I just think Vince McMahon did not like women's wrestling.

I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.

When people don't hear you on the radio they think 'maybe he retired.'

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

We tend to assume that data is either private or public, either owned by one person or shared by many. In fact there's more to it than that, above and beyond the upsetting reality that private data is now anything but.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas.

Indeed, the big U.S. error after 9/11 was to treat Pakistan as if it were an ally. With an ally, it is possible to assume a large degree of policy overlap. With Pakistan, no such assumption can be made.

Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.

People assume that I'm an aristocrat, but I don't really feel part of any class.

Every time I make an assumption about someone who has hurt or disappointed me without confirming it, I believe a lie about this person in my head. This assumption is a misrepresentation of reality. Because I have not checked it out with the other person, it is very possible I am believing something untrue. It is also likely I will pass that false assumption around to others.

This approach shares an assumption, one dating from the ancient Greeks, that human reasoning can be a source of knowledge.

I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough for a preschooler to think he understands it, the little tyke's liable to grab a microwave scalpel and start cutting when no one's looking.

All science ever did was measure a teensy sliver of the universe and assume that everything else behaved the same way.

But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough for a preschooler to think he understands it, the little tyke's liable to grab a microwave scalpel and start cutting when no one's looking.

people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You

Agnostic philosopher Antony O'Hear agrees: 'there are aspects of our experience and existence more fundamental than science, and on which science depends for its possibility. So science cannot be used, as it often is, to undermine those features of our natures.'35 The idea that the mind is 'nothing but' the brain is ultimately a deduction from the assumption of naturalism.

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Or, put another way, nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted. That's

the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.

Because my early music was heavily produced, people assume my voice was also heavily produced.