Quotes About Assumption

What I find weird is that the term 'chick lit' is used to encompass literally anything a woman writes about relationships. It's the assumption that because you're female, you must write in a certain way. I don't understand why that is - it is a bit demeaning.

What we assume will be temporary often becomes permanent; what we assume is permanent often proves temporary.

It's a Secret of Adulthood: What we assume will be temporary often becomes permanent; what we assume is permanent often proves temporary.

He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

I certainly can't see any sensible position to assume aside from that of complete scepticism tempered by a leaning toward that which existing evidence makes most probable.

If we assume the worst about people, we will get the worst out of them.

My father had the right idea. Begin from an assumption of insanity and then laugh, where possible.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

I want to live in a world where my son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born, where a toy in his hand isn't mistaken for anything other than a toy.

Never assume the obvious is true.

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

She'd automatically assumed it was men trying to kill her. Look at that. She was guilty of reverse sexism or . . . whatever.

Intelligent women make the mistake of assuming that if they hold a higher degree, they can hold their own in a political debate, and they have a good understanding of mid-caps

He was silent. She hoped she'd injured his feelings—assuming he had feelings to injure in the first place.

I thought things were fine between us." "Of course you did. You're a man, aren't you?

For example, users with a full hard drive may unwittingly delete configuration files under the mistaken assumption that deleting a boot.ini file must be okay because they don't remember ever using it.

First impressions are crap.

Of course you can judge a book by its cover; moreover, we are obliged to.

Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.