Quotes About Assumption

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." People

The psyche's job is to keep us blissfully ignorant of who we are, what we think, and how we'll behave in any situation. We're all operating in a dense fog of mutual reinforcement. Our thoughts are shaped primarily by legacy hardware that evolved to assume that everyone else must be right . But even when the fog is pointed out, we're no better at navigating through it .

The psyche's job is to keep us blissfully ignorant of who we are, what we think, and how we'll behave in any situation. We're all operating in a dense fog of mutual reinforcement. Our thoughts are shaped primarily by legacy hardware that evolved to assume that everyone else must be right. But even when the fog is pointed out, we're no better at navigating through it.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

You teach combat, I guess." Aphros threw up his hands in exasperation. "Why does everyone assume that?" Leo glanced at the massive sword on the fish-guy's back. "Uh, I don't know.

Never assume you're safe, and never, ever tempt the Fates by announcing that you think you're safe.

Despite the elder-hippie vibe, she was so attractive that I assumed we must be related.

Male privilege is assuming one has the right to occupy any space or person by whatever means, with or without permission. It's a sense of entitlement that's unique to those who have been raised male in most cultures - it's notably absent in most girls and women.

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.

There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as succesful and unsuccesful to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who fail at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompeent incapable even of getting their dying quite right.

Rafe took his time, still checking out the room. He gestured at a pile of textbooks on the floor. "What's he use those for? Weight lifting?" "If you showed up in class more often, you wouldn't be asking that. Daniel's not a dumb jock." "No kidding." He leaned over to read the titles. "Pre-law? Please tell me those belong to his older brothers.

Trials rarely found men not guilty. The general view was that if a man were innocent he would not have got into trouble in the first place.

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.

An expectation is a thought.It has no power or influence.

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.

The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was impossible to express it as a figure. So someone had to overcome this reasonable assumption, someone had to figure out how to express nothing as a number. This unknown man from India made nonexistence exist.

The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was impossible to express it as a figure. So someone had to overcome this reasonable assumption, someone has to figure out how to express nothing as a number. This unknown man from India made nonexistence exist. Extraordinary, don't you think?

I have always assumed that vigilance and love would guarantee a decent life for my children, but I

For routines you call, rely only on documented behavior. If you can't, for whatever reason, then document your assumption well.

WAGs... That's a technical term we engineers use. It means 'Wild-Assed Guess'.