Quotes About Assumption

People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.

It's so aggravating the way people assume that just because I like having sex with some people, it means I like having sex with all people.

keep the conversation about identity going. This is the work of psychotherapy: to learn both to assume

Humans didn't take out an exclusive deed on reality—we just assume we did, perhaps out of our self-inflicted sense of superiority.

What a man wishes he generally believes to be true

Who's going to rob a black man on a bicycle?

You're not stealing anything, you're not breaking anything, so I'd guess you're Stephanie.

The trick, you see—" "Is to never assume anything," she finished.

A theory is the academic equivalent of a guess.

You better not be implying what I think you're implying.

The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

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

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

Observing someone doesn't mean that you know them. Too many folks think they know you when they really don't know you.

Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.

Since Borne never displayed any kind of threatening behavior, I never thought to take him as a threat. Even calling Borne a "he" began to feel faintly ridiculous as he didn't exhibit the aggression or self-absorption I expected from most males. Instead

So long as you don't tell people you don't know something, they'll probably think you know it.

Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.

It's just like Kiernan Kane to send an urgent message hidden in an indecipherable mess of prophetic rhyme. By the time we've figured out what the thing means, we'll be in the middle of danger only to realize that every assumption we made was completely wrong.

chest—which just showed she knew crap all about Shifters. None of them were nice. "I

To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim —

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for granted, which might be the very thing so dear about it.