Quotes About Assumption

To give another person the benefit of the doubt was about as difficult an everyday task as anyone faced.

You, making the assumption that you're an average-size human being, contain no less than 7 times 10 to the 18th (7 1018) joules of potential energy.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." —MARK TWAIN, AMERICAN AUTHOR

If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance." —ORVILLE WRIGHT, AMERICAN INVENTOR

The truth is sometimes the very opposite from what you expect it to be.

Never assume that you know the mind of another.

The biggest problem with communication is the assumption that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw summed it up well when he observed that the biggest problem with communication is the assumption that it has taken place.

in the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don't care about them or don't like them.

I'm sorry. I'm used to people objecting to things because they think I can't do them or shouldn't do them. It didn't occur to me that you might have a real reason.

He'd misjudged her, badly.

I don't do pity kisses," she says. "I don't do pity anything. Pity is patronizing. Pity is an assumption of superiority." "That sounds like your dad." "It is my dad, but he's right. He says kindness is better. Kindness is the most important thing of all. Pity is an insult. Kindness is a miracle.

Everyone thinks they know better. Everyone.

Assuming a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Very well, for simplicity's sake, let us assume I am the center of creation. In doing this, let us pass over innumerable boring stories: the rise and fall of empires, sagas of heroism, ballads of tragic love. Let us hurry forward to the only tale of any real importance." His smile broadened. "Mine.

I assumed the girl was a passenger like myself. She was my age, perhaps a year older, but a year makes a great deal of difference at that time of life. The Tahl have a saying about children of our age. The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.

You know you're clever. That's your weakness. You assume you know what you're getting into, but you don't.

Este presentimiento resultaría cierto, aunque se basaba en premisas totalmente falsas.

was doing the will of Allah, therefore he knew Allah would allow no harm to come to him. Of course, he had no reason for this conclusion, other than his own ego and misguided notions of what the divine creator wished of his children. He assumed that the divine would obey his wishes, instead of realizing it should be the opposite.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Envy denies grace. The assumption of envy is that we deserve what another has been given, when, in fact, you and I deserve nothing.

Como muchos hombres inteligentes, cree que los demás son idiotas.

The conclusion is that the original assumption of ordering leads us into contradiction, and so that assumption must be false.

It's a bitch, ain't it? The things we assume.