Quotes About Assumption

Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.

This theory, then, is in the first place based on an erroneous assumption--viz., that abstinence from things lawful is intrinsically a higher sort of virtue than temperance in the use of them. This is not true. Abstinence is the virtue of the weak, temperance is the virtue of the strong.

The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need to understand the ways in which we differ from the rational human assumed in standard economic theory.

When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.

You tell me that 'Date Night' was good? I'm not going to see it. I will debate you on it, having no knowledge of the footage in the film. I was next to someone on the plane watching it, and they were dozing off.

The authors of the Affordable Care Act wrongly assumed that new kinds of health plans, engineered in Washington, D.C., would emerge to displace the national for-profit insurers.

We can take these things for granted, when we have everything on a plate.

I like to have one car that I can be certain will go. The thing about classic cars is you can't always assume they will go.

We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.

I think every organization needs to assume that they are compromised.

When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me when people say, 'Well, it's clearly autobiographical,' and I say, 'Well, how do you know my autobiography?' Certainly, there are things that are connected, but I just think it's a very interesting assumption.

I swear to formally assume the national executive powers as acting president.

I love basketball! When I'm flying, and I have on sweats, a hat, and sneakers, people always assume that I'm a high school kid going to an away game. And I always say no, I'm a fan of the game.

My boyfriend is not a swimmer!

We should assume that the end product can be switched off by any consumer who is offended or frightened by it.

I kind of assumed all of Australia was like the Gold Coast - so I was telling people Australians just work out and go to the beach. Like, Australia has it figured out! But then I went to Sydney, and it was nothing like the Gold Coast - but I still loved it.

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them.

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

I do not like dogs that assume you're guilty until you prove you're innocent. I like democratic dogs.

The inquiring mind is rarely blessed with certainty; it must make shift with assumptions;

No sé en qué momento empezaste a darte permiso de darme por sentada -le dijo ella, siempre a cargo, con el estómago revuelto en la garganta-: no sé en qué momento te comiste el cuento de que tú eres el protagonista de esta historia

In one recorded case, the English speaker said "I assume," the French interpreter translated it as "I deduce," and this was rendered by the Russian as "I consider"—by which time the idea of assumption had been lost!

The false assumption is that almost all people, almost all of the time, make choices that are in their best interest or at the very least are better than the choices that would be made by someone else.