Quotes About Assumption

You evaded my question." "Then perhaps you had better assume that I intended to evade it.

He went on to Jubal, " 'Thou art God.' It's not a message of cheer and hope, Jubal. It's a defiance—and an unafraid unabashed assumption of personal responsibility.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy—in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil—and

Either way, I have no wish to disturb a man sleeping in a gutter; I assume until proved otherwise that he belongs there.

Miscommunication, misunderstanding and general misjudgment of one another is vastly increased by the fact that few of us know about these levels of circuitry, and we all tend to assume that the person we are interacting with is on the same circuit we are.

Each of us has a "favorite" circuit — that is, a circuit that has been more heavily imprinted than the others. Miscommunication, misunderstanding and general misjudgment of one another is vastly increased by the fact that few of us know about these levels of circuitry, and we all tend to assume that the person we are interacting with is on the same circuit we are.

Is it his job to lie?" "No, but you're assuming it's a lie. Reasonable people can disagree and have opposing interpretations of the facts. It's Jonathan's job to present an interpretation that's favorable to his client. It would be malpractice for him to do otherwise." When she said it she was stiff and testy, and it felt like we were having a confrontation.

Just because yu can't prove it doesn't mean it isn't true

Storytelling typically happens blindly fast. When we believe we're at risk, we tell ourselves a story so quickly that we don't even know that we're doing it.

Rachel, Rachel, Rachel," he said, very still and unmoving. "Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You're like a frog, you know.

Why would I assume that the guy wanted to hurt me when nobody's ever tried to hurt me before?

Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

Brains, remarked Cap'n Bill, is of all kinds and work different ways. But I've noticed that them as thinks that their brains is best is often mistook.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial, said Anne, rather scornfully. Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? - Damon

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

A belief is an uneducated guess.

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

The study of the human mind has so far assumed that Homo sapiens is Homer Simpson.