Quotes About Assumption

Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act; it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.

The time it takes your assumption to become fact, your desire to be fulfilled, is directly proportionate to the naturalness of your feeling of already being what you want to be — of already having what you desire.

In spite of your appearance of freedom of action, you obey as everything else does, the law of assumption. Whatever you may think of the question of free will, the truth is your experiences throughout your life are determined by your assumptions — whether conscious or unconscious. An assumption builds a bridge of incidents that lead inevitably to the fulfillment of itself.

you must assume that you already are what you want to be and then live by faith in this assumption

There are two main reasons why this assumption is wrong. First, once basic material needs have been met, there is very little evidence that pursuing financial prosperity generates much extra happiness for individuals or for nations. Second, by blindly pursuing economic growth, we are creating a whole set of social and environmental issues that will undermine the potential happiness and well-being of future generations.

With this offhand example, Pichai gives voice to Silicon Valley's reigning assumption, which can be boiled down to this: Anything that can be automated should be automated. If it's possible to program a computer to do something a person can do, the computer should do it. Missing from this view is any consideration of the pleasures and responsibilities of everyday life.

Western radicals fall for an equally inane error. Because it is easier to expose abuses of power in democracies, and because Western radicals are most concerned about abuses of power in their own countries, they assume that democratic abuses are the major or only abuses of power worth protesting about.

You speak very good English for an American.

When I saw her come in that night with you, I said to myself, Now there's a handful, because I thought she'd be snooty, you see. It was the way she carried her head.

This entire system functions on the assumption that women do housework for love .

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

The older I get," observed Mr. van Koppen, "the more I realize that everything depends upon what a man postulates. The rest is plain sailing.

She's married, too. Arch, I'll bet she's one of these rich bitches can't live with their husbands.

It's wrong to assume that I must be a sex you're familiar with," it said, "but as it happens, I'm male.

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

Do not always assume motive where human error will suffice.

Ma chi capisce tutto e tutti finisce con l'assolvere tutto e tutti. Chi assolve tutto e tutti finisce col perdonare tutto e tutti. Chi perdona tutto e tutti non crede a nulla. E chi non crede a nulla, mia cara, è un cinico. Tout court.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.

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

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

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

far too much Christian evangelism and apologetics is based on the assumption that almost everyone is open, interested and needy—when most people most of the time are quite simply not.

It did not induce brain fever, or harm her so, belles lectrices. If we went down under every stroke in that way as novelists assume, we should all be loved of Heaven if that love be shown by early graves, as the old Greeks say.