Quotes About Assumption

Galileo soon saw it was easier to explain phenomena like tides if you assumed the earth was not stationary, as Aristotle and Ptolemy had taught, but actually in motion.

Se asumen, se cumplen, y punto... Sin grandes gestos. Sin dramatismos.

We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What's even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don't even know who they are themselves.

No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.

information alone does not reliably change behavior. This is a common mistake people make, even well-meaning professionals. The assumption is this: If we give people the right information, it will change their attitudes, which in turn will change their behaviors. I call this the "Information-Action Fallacy.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

We leap to conclusions and remember those conclusions as fact. We react on our own prejudices but don't always recognize them as such.

I assume that people react to things as I would react. For example, if you are nice to people, they should be nice to you.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

Since Ronald Reagan we have had this assumption in the United States that the Republicans are the party of the military, the Republicans are the party of patriotism, the Republicans are the party of American values.

I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.

I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.

People take reality for granted.

When you're an actor, people just take it for granted that you're really confident and can get up in front a stage full of people and just speak to them.

I look back at all the contracts I've had, and I never assumed I would get another one. Honestly. I don't take anything for granted. Nothing.

People can't take me for granted.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

Most people assume that when you go to court and win your case that you are guaranteed to get your money. Sadly, this isn't always the case.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Why do you condemn a man you've never seen, a man no one knows, a man you know nothing about?

Why," said this Summoner, "ride you then in sundry shapes, and not always in the same one?" "Because we will assume whatever form," said the Fiend, "is most suitable to catch our prey." "And what causes you to undertake all this labor?" asked the Summoner.

Just 'cause the cat had her kittens in the oven don't make them biscuits.