Quotes About Assumption

It's an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

ones who had never met us but confidently

She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..

She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

But if there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make, one blind spot, it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is. As a result, again and again we mistake cause for effect; we blame the sailing boat for the wind, or credit the bystander with causing the event.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

What we call 'natural' is frequently no more than bad theory.

We become used to thinking that all of this exists necessarily and unshakeably.

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!

She thinks she knows who I am because she thinks who I am is who she tells me I am.

What is it with that argument? Why is it that you have to jump through hoops of fire to find out that someone's decent? The fact that someone is a bitch on the surface says heaps about them.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

We tend to assume that when people are experts at one thing, their expertise extends to other areas as well.

If you are an educated person, you will need to be careful not to assume that uneducated people are too stupid to understand the Bible.

You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we'll always have more to give.

Don't run down your checklist. There is a tendency, even for senior leaders, to use meetings with a boss as an opportunity to run through your checklist of what you've been doing. Sometimes this is appropriate, but it is rarely what your boss needs or wants to hear. You should assume she wants to focus on the most important things you're trying to do and how she can help.

Wolf acknowledged that "a huge, overwhelming segment of America does not really give a damn what cops do in the course of maintaining order because they assume (probably correctly) that abuse at the hands of the police will never happen to them.

The most radical action a white person can take is to acknowledge this denied privilege, to say, "Yes, you're right. In our institutional structures, and in deep psychological structures, our underlying assumption is that our lives are worth more than yours.