Quotes About Assumption

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure just ain't so.

It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

One does tend to assume that life must be far easier for others than it ever is for oneself," he said. "I suspect it rarely is. I daresay life was not meant to be easy.

She was not sure that her deafness had strengthened her character. She was not even sure she had met a challenge. A silent world was as natural to her as a noisy one must be to them, she reflected. But people tended to assume that deaf persons could function as people only if they learned to conform to a world of sound. What about the challenge of silence? Very few people of hearing ever accepted it or even knew that there was a challenge there. People of hearing feared silence...

The likelihood of my initial hunch being right was too low

But that proved not to be the case.

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the assumption that the herstory and myth of white women is the legitimate and sole herstory and myth of all women to call upon for power and background, and that nonwhite women and our herstories are noteworthy only as decorations, or examples of female victimization.

I always thought there would be ice in hell

Given that our civilization is unable to assimilate well even those concepts that originate in human heads when they appear outside its main current, although the creators of those concepts are, after all, children of the same age—how could we have assumed that we would be capable of understanding a civilization totally unlike ours, if it addressed us across the cosmic gulf?

Now I don't know why he's denying them habeas corpus. I can only assume the guys they got detained over there did something really unforgivable. Like remind Obama he was once a professor of Constitutional Law.

The basic assumption of science is scientific determinism.

If you make an assumption, we're in a world of confirmation bias, and clarity is the first casualty.

what is the mother of carelessness if not assumption?

I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and not just because it assumes a limit on the human imagination, which is basically limitless. It also suggests that some leaps of identification are impossible. I refuse to accept that, because it leads to the conclusion that real change is beyond us, and so is empathy. The idea is false on the evidence. Like shit, change happens.

Clay said, If they have flashlights like us, we can almost assume- We can't assume anything, [Alice] said restlessly, querulously. My father says assume makes an ass out of you and me. Get it, u and- I get it, Clay said.

That had to be the answer. When you heard hoofbeats, you didn't think zebras.

if you found enough cat hairs in a person's house, you pretty much had to assume there was a feline on the premises somewhere

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good. And yet ever since the New Deal, liberals have been unable to shake this fundamental dogma that the state can be the instrument for a politics of meaning that transforms the entire nation into a village.

We had the whole 'when you assume you make an ass out of you and me' speech in school.

top up position down The fact that I suspect I'm an asshole means I probably am not, because a real asshole doesn't think he's an asshole, does he? Therefore, by realizing that I'm an asshole, I am in fact negating that very realization, am I not? Descartes's Asshole Axiom: I think I am; therefor I'm not one.