Quotes About Assumption

The subject matter may have been biased but the administration assumed we were decent human beings and before classes started all we needed to learn was where the library was. Today, the administrations start with a different assumption, one that believes humanity is dark, one that sees hate and oppression everywhere, one that sees boys as rapists, and victims...victims are everywhere.

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If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised

The extraordinary hides behind the camouflage of the ordinary. Assume nothing, Maisie.

It isn't very logical to live my life on goundless supposition. I have to assume the truth of the moment is the truth of the future. - Leah

Lani felt certain that hers and Dawson's worlds would never collide. She was wrong.

SECRET #14 Sometimes you shouldn't be so sure of what you think you're sure of.

I guess we both lose the bet. What bet Thomas asked entering the room. Boxers or briefs Jeanne Louise answered. I was betting boxers and Elspeth thought briefs. Instead he went commando!! So be warned ladies, don't assume they are wearing any undies!!

People aren't thinking about us nearly as much as we might think they are.

Please see how dangerous this assumption was. She got alone with her own thoughts and assumptions. And it led her to doubt God. And take control to get what she wanted. What she thought was best.

I assumed," Ai-ming told me, "that when Big Mother's stories finished, life would continue and I would go back to being myself. But it wasn't true. The stories got longer and longer, and I got smaller and smaller. When I told my grandmother this, she laughed her head off. She said, 'But that's how the world is, isn't it? Or did you think you were bigger than the world?

Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.

Damned right I am. He's too smart to commit a murder and leave it alone. For twenty years I've operated under the assumption that he's back there, watching, still covering his tracks.

Because I was a Wheelwright-and, therefore, a New England snob-I'd assumed that Phoenix was largely composed of Mormons and Baptists and Republicans;

Some readers and writers don't look like readers or writers.

It's long been assumed that Machiavelli is in Hell and -worse- content to be there

As George Loewenstein, an economist at Carnegie Mellon, points out, "There is little evidence beyond fallible introspection supporting the standard assumption of complete volitional control of behavior.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

We usually get what we anticipate.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.