Quotes About Assumption

who had the advantage of seeming to be an American without the disadvantage of actually being one; and Adeyemi

Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained through ignorance.

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

But only a fool thought he knew what was in a woman's head just because she had a smile on her face.

Uncomplicated men assumed others to have uncomplicated motivations

People had a way of folding what they saw into what they knew and what they wanted to believe.

the idea that one person's mind is accessible to another's is just a conversational illusion, just a figure of speech, an assumption that makes some kind of exchange between basically alien creatures seem plausible, and that really the relationship of one person to another is ultimately unknowable.

Subjected to enough uncontrollable stress, we learn to be helpless—we lack the motivation to try to live because we assume the worst; we lack the cognitive clarity to perceive when things are actually going fine, and we feel an aching lack of pleasure in everything.

YOUNG: Self-appointed advisors have taken this line about Negro responsibility almost solely, and these are the very people who in the past have been largely indifferent to the plight of the Negro citizen, they've been people who fought against civil rights. I'm thinking of columnists like David Lawrence and Fulton Lewis. Now these are the people who speak of Negroes' assuming certain responsibilities before these rights are to be given.

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She said she'd have spoken years ago, only she thought I wouldn't. And I never spoke to her because I was sure she wouldn't speak to me. Isn't it strange how people misunderstand each other?

Tommy and Adam Cowan, over at Markdale, are twins; and they're both cross-eyed. So I s'posed that was what being twins meant.

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.

I challenged that assumption by returning to a full, productive life. I had behaved, Nichols said, as if death was an option.

With both the Indian and the women he was always left with the feeling that, without meaning to, he had made some kind of mistake.

And just like that I had my lesson. I shouldn't assume that every woman a man bashes gave him a him a good reason to do it.- Anita Blake

And just like that I had my lesson. I shouldn't assume that every woman a man bashes gave him a good reason to do it. - Anita Blake

either you're a whore, or you think I am. The first I'm willing to believe. The second I know isn't true.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.