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Quotes About Assumption

Most people assume that maintenance begins when an application is released, that maintenance means fixing bugs and enhancing features. We think these people are wrong.
~ Andrew Hunt
Why did he always assume Mexico City would be like Phoenix on a smoggy day? Why did no one tell him it would be Madrid
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Most people in America think Art is a man's name.
~ Andy Warhol
Just because there is one bad apple in the barrow, does not mean all the apples are bad. If you dig into the barrow, it is guaranteed to have a few apples that are not spoiled.
~ Angela Brown
I was sure Grandmother Madden would like that.
~ Ann M. Martin
It is deemed more polite to assume you are white.
~ Sara Ahmed
Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.
~ Sarah Dessen
It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.
~ Sarah Dessen
I spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what I'd think of that girl, if I was someone else, seeing how easily she sits in her boyfriend's lap, laughing, with his arms around her. I would have thought her life was perfect, the way I once thought Cass's was. It was too easy, I was learning, to just assume things.
~ Sarah Dessen
How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.
~ Sarah Dessen
Most people think a girl and a guy can't just be friends, there has to be something else going on.
~ Sarah Dessen
Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.
~ Sarah Dessen
Where Annie came from, one assumed the worst and worked backwards from there.
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch
Men believe value is created by accomplishment, and they have objectives for the women in their lives. If a woman meets the objectives, he assumes she loves him. If she fails to meet the objectives, he will assume she does not love him. The man assumes that if the woman loved him she would have tried harder and he always believes his objectives for her are reasonable.
~ Scott Adams
Whenever you have money, reputations, power, ego, and complexity in play, it is irrational to assume you are seeing objective science.
~ Scott Adams
For example, if every time you eat popcorn, one hour later you fart so hard that it inflates your socks, you can reasonably assume popcorn makes you gassy.
~ Scott Adams
Never assume you understand the odds of things. I
~ Scott Adams
we come to understand how easy it is to be confident in our opinions and yet spectacularly wrong.
~ Scott Adams
Never assume you understand the odds of things.
~ Scott Adams
Assuming scientists are human, you would expect lots of peer-reviewed studies to be flawed.
~ Scott Adams
Men and women often judge what they don't really know.
~ John Bailey
It has been popularly assumed that the Bible, bearing the stamp of Divine authority, must be complete, perfect, and unimpeachable in all its parts, and a thousand difficulties and incoherent doctrines have sprung out of this theory.23
~ John Barton
Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience.
~ David Emerald Womeldorff
I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.
~ Hilary Duff