Quotes About Assumption

If you use the law to judge others, go ahead, but don't assume that your judgment mimics the judgement of God.

We cannot. . .begin any real inquiry into Truth, with any assumption or belief whatsoever. We must be willing to see things as they are, rather than as we hope, wish, or expect them to be.

You assume that he has the same level of emotional integrity that you have.

So if sumo wrestlers, schoolteachers, and day-care parents all cheat, are we to assume

If you were to assume that many experts use their information to your detriment, you'd be right.

fallacy of extrapolation":

Can't recognize the organization of a novel? Assume there isn't one. Baffled by arcana — i.e., stuff you don't already know? Call the author pretentious. Find a book hard-going? Assume the author is deliberately torturing you.

Classic writing, with its assumption of equality between writer and reader, makes the reader feel like a genius. Bad writing makes the reader feel like a dunce.

The key is to assume that your readers are as intelligent and sophisticated as you are, but that they happen not to know something you know.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn't.

I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate.

You could tell he was a bad guy because he didn't have a tan

Assume ignorance before malevolence. No one has a direct pipeline to your wants and needs—not even you.

What is known and what is unknown is always relative because what is unexpected depends entirely upon what we expect (desire)-- on what we had previously planned and presumed. The unexpected constantly occurs because it is impossible, in the absence of omniscience, to formulate an entirely accurate model of what actually is happening or of what should happen.

Assuming that others think as they do, they expect—instead of ensuring—reciprocity for their thoughtful actions. When this does not happen, they don't speak up. They do not or cannot straightforwardly demand recognition. The dark side of their characters emerges, because of their subjugation, and they become resentful.

Assume first that you are doing the easiest thing, and not the most difficult.

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." First, it is easy to assume that "nature" is something with a nature—something static.

The person who is speaking in this manner believes that winning the argument makes him right, and that doing so necessarily validates the assumption-structure of the dominance hierarchy he most identifies with. This is often—and unsurprisingly—the hierarchy within which he has achieved the most success, or the one with which he is most temperamentally aligned. Almost all discussions involving politics or economics unfold in this manner,

Our anxiety systems are very practical. They assume that anything you run away from is dangerous. The proof of that is, of course, the fact you ran away.

To hold the no excuse for physical punishment theory is also (fifth) to assume that the word no can be effectively uttered to another person in the absence of the threat of punishment.

Our anxiety systems are very practical. They assume that anything you run away from is dangerous.

Nuestros sistemas de ansiedad son sumamente prácticos y asumen que cualquier cosa de la que huyes es peligrosa.

People, including yourself, will start to assume that you are competent and able (or at least they will not immediately conclude the reverse).

Assume ignorance before malevolence.