Quotes About Assumption

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

people undertake some new task not because of a challenge, but because of the assumed absence of a challenge because the task looks easy…and then, once they are stuck with it, they have willy-nilly to overcome the unsuspected difficulties—and sometimes they even succeed.

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

When in doubt, always act on the assumption that people are more honorable than you have any solid reason for supposing they are.

leader had expected that the Europeans would help him overwhelm American intransigence. He had assumed that

People say: a donkey is stupid. When a man is told that he is not very intelligent, stubborn and lazy he is politely called an ass.

Just because you met somebody, doesn't mean to say you know anything about them.

She would give him the benefit of the doubt, as she always did: her experience had taught her that the names we gave to others, and the things we accused them of, often said more about us than they did about them.

She had noticed that there was a tendency on the part of some Americans to believe that everybody, deep inside, wanted to live in America, and that it was inexplicable that people who could do so did not.

But just because somebody has lots of sweets does not mean that he has stolen them. One thing, you see, does not always lead to another.

We assume so much, don't we? We assume that our children are going to be reasonable. We assume they're going to see things as we see them. And then suddenly we discover that they can look at things quite differently.

Miss Taylor smiled. "I shall assume that the verb in that sentence you've just uttered is implied, and that the phrase that you had in mind was That doesn't include…which would, of course, justify the use of the accusative me, rather than the nominative I. I assume that.

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

It is unwise to assume that just because someone has no manners, he is an inferior swordsman as well.

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

If somebody has the competency to do something, and the desire to do something, then nothing about their race, sex or sexual orientation should hold them back. But minimizing difference is not the same as pretending difference does not exist. To assume that sex, sexuality and skin colour mean nothing would be ridiculous. But to assume that they mean everything will be fatal.

we seem to have decided that the individual complexities which actually exist not just between women and men but within men and within women can simply be pushed to one side with the assumption that they have all been overcome.

For most of the twentieth century our educational system has been built on the assumption that teaching is necessary for learning to occur.

13. What is biblical masculinity? It is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

Not for me, I'd always assumed they were dirty," Professor Pendleton said. "But that comes part and parcel with working in Subtlety. You don't see that much work in the shadows and assume there aren't a few things done in true darkness.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.