Quotes About Assumption

A big assumption. And when you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.

But perhaps it is presumptuous of me to assume that they will be missing something. Perhaps in retrospect this has been a story not about Sacramento at all, but about the things we lose and the promises we break as we grow older;

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.

and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

You're not disappointed in what it is. You're disappointed in what you thought it would be.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Don't judge a horse by the harness.

I always assume a man is at least a latent homosexual until proven otherwise. In any case, you can't blame a gay for trying, he said, smiling a smile utterly unlike my own.

People see what you are before they hear what you are.

You will always be right if you suspect that you are always wrong.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

Isaiah 46:10, "My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please." On the other hand, man's will is enslaved either to sin or to righteousness: "But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness" (Romans 6:17-18). Man has no free will – it is an assumption without any biblical or rational warrant.

It is self-refuting to argue that man cannot know God due to the difference between the two, because the statement itself assumes considerable knowledge about God.

The assumption spreads that government best knows what is good for its people, when ultimately it does not.

This fundamental dimension of being itself, of the actual existence of what they are studying, is taken for granted by all other branches of knowledge, which then go on to study what it is and how it works. But just because something is taken for granted does not mean that it is unimportant.

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be rather a conundrum.

Ignorance is trust. —

I know, not what you were expecting am I? Everybody says that. Including my own family.

And most of all, it's such a young male thing to say, this automatic assumption of safety. Women, even girls of Lanny's age, don't think that way. Parents don't. Older people don't. It reveals a certain blind, entitled ignorance to how dangerous the world really is.

You let me believe all this time that I bound myself to you in exchange for getting published and being successful." Kathleen's mouth worked around the bitterness of the words. "You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of…