Quotes About Assumption

Es gibt kein Ich vor der Annahme eines Geschlechts.

In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places.

A system must necessarily be based on premises that by its very nature it cannot question.

humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth.

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. . . We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.

Tenemos tantas ganas de odiar a alguien, de asignarle una culpa e imponerle un castigo, que lo vemos a la peor luz posible, y le imponemos los peores rasgos.

In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.

They didn't want more information that might spoil their story. WYSIATI.

System 1 runs ahead of the facts in constructing a rich image on the basis of scraps of evidence.

Most of us, most of the time, live with the unquestioned belief that the world looks as it does because that's the way it is.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. Overconfidence

understanding a statement must begin with an attempt to believe it: you must first know what the idea would mean if it were true.

WYSIATI—what you see is all there is.

Most of us view the world as more benign than it really

We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing—what we see is all there is.

There was no particular reason to do so, but your mind automatically assumed a temporal sequence and a causal connection between the words bananas and vomit, forming a sketchy scenario in which bananas caused the sickness.

A belief is not a fact; it is simply what we believe.

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

It was possible that I could stop assuming that no one could handle the whole mess of me and give them a chance to surprise me instead.

Notice that Tabor assumes Jesus couldn't have been resurrected. He was simply reburied by some unknown figure, and the idea that he was resurrected inexplicably emerged later.

Black is bein' guilty until proven that you're innocent

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.