Quotes About Assumption

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

That was the thing about the Goodnight world. No matter what the label said, you could never assume anything only worked like magic.

Now you know: these skills don't come naturally to all children. We tend to think that all children are created equal in these capacities, and this assumption causes many adults to believe that behaviorally challenging children must not want to do well. Now you know better.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble

If I am seen as a butch, or a man, I am now—to some minds—walking with someone who is under my protection and who is in my possession. Whatever critiques of gender and culture apply to that assumption, and they are numerous as the grains of sand, they do not always assert themselves in the walkaday world.

Eskiden her insan hakk?nda hiçbir esasa dayanmadan, s?rf mukavemet edilmez bir hissin, bir pe?in hükmün tesiriyle nas?l: "Bu beni anlamaz?" demi?sem, bu sefer bu kad?n için gene hiçbir esasa dayanmadan fakat o yan?lmaz ilk hisse tabi olarak " ??te bu beni anlar!" diyordum.

And I took it for granted that he knew all of these things about himself.

The world that we think we see is only our best guess.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it. Impossible, of course.

What I have always assumed in him to be bravery may be merely an ignorance of consequences. He thinks he is safe, because he is what he says he is. But he's out in the open, and surrounded by strangers.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself.

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me.

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.

When we hear a little good and no harm of a person, it is easy and pleasant to imagine more:

Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.

fashion. I'm sure he mistook you for one of those…

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.