Quotes About Assumption

For most of my life, I've always been the youngest one at the table, and it's something I've come to expect, maybe take for granted.

When one starts to treat Darwinism as a hypothesis about the biochemical level of life rather than as an assumption, it takes about ten minutes to conclude it's radically inadequate.

It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use. —Alfred Korzybski

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

Do I look like I watch Star Trek?

Lacking a good explanation, the mind defaults to whatever explanation is on the table, regardless of how improbable it may be.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

In reality, to achieve such an ordered mental condition is not as easy as it sounds. Contrary to what we tend to assume, the normal state of the mind is chaos. Without

Contrary to what we tend to assume, the normal state of the mind is chaos.

the common assumption was the sports boycott of South Africa would not be lifted until South Africa became a normal society and had one person, one vote. Now it was clear Mandela was going to use sport to make South Africa normal, to achieve his great dream of a rainbow country.

That's the problem with our perspective; we always assume we're right based on the information we have.

We interpret the actions of others as malicious when they might be totally innocent. And how we interpret their actions is what upsets us.

Striving for perfection is not foolish, but assuming you have achieved it most certainly is.

It's always best to assume that everyone either knows the truth or will know the truth, because either they do or they will.

Don't assume that you are the exception.

As you can see, there are a few problems: 1.      I'm no plumber, nor do I have a moustache and red clothes. That eliminates Job #1.

oo yy ey oo yy adônaie, Immediately, immediately Good messenger of the God anlala lai gaia apa diachanna choryn" Assumption of the God form "I am the headless daimon with my sight in my feet; [I am] the mighty one [who possesses] the immortal fire; I am the truth who hates the fact that unjust deeds

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

As C. S. Lewis regularly remarked, the chronological snobbery of the modern age (i.e. the assumption that anything that comes after around 1750 is somehow superior to anything that went before) needs confronting at several levels.

Second, I have taken it for granted that Jesus of Nazareth existed. Some writers feel a need to justify this assumption at length against people who try from time to time to deny it. It would be easier, frankly, to believe that Tiberius Caesar, Jesus' contemporary, was a figment of the imagination than to believe that there never was such a person as Jesus. Those who persist in denying this obvious point will probably not want to read a book like this anyway.

He was not the king they expected.

Anything we must assume in order to function in the world is part of general revelation. The undeniable facts of experience reflect the created structure of physical nature or human nature, or both.

The accused were considered guilty unless proven innocent.