Quotes About Assumption

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.

Imagine about anything instead of assume about it.

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Expectation creates the reality.

You will make a perfectly rational mistake: You will assume that sooner or later the paradigm you are presently practicing (which has been mostly successful) will solve all the rest of your problems.

Every barber thinks everybody needs a haircut.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.