Quotes About Assumption

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

People take the little bit of information they're fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it's wrong.

If you try to guess what people are gonna think, you're chasing the wrong thing.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Coming out of WWII, there was the assumption, the hope, the vision of a world at peace, of a kind of Wilsonian universalism, that we and the Soviets would get along, we'd have a kind of lovefest for as far into the future as anyone could see.

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?

Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

I need to crack the Mumbai traffic code - if I leave early, under the assumption that there will be traffic, I get completely clear roads and reach an hour before my meeting, and then because I can't find parking I end up having to walk anyway.

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.

In general, the straight line of a joke sets up a premise, an expectation. Then the funny ending - the punch line - in a sense contradicts the original assumption by refusing to follow what had seemed a reasonable train of thought. Many jokes involve that simple matter of leaping outside what had appeared to be the rules of the game at the moment.

Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.

He has several tactics he uses most often in his attacks on her mind: exaggerated likelihood, catastrophic thinking, underestimated ability, faulty memory, and perpetual questions. Worry has no memory and assumes the worst

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You're bored. You're depressed. You're shy. You're stuck up. You're judgemental. When others can't read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that's true to who we are.

We didn't know you were an introvert, we thought you were just a bitch.

In this one man, the whole Church has been assumed by the Word.

right. For the sake of our survival, we must assume the worst. First, let me thank you. It's most fortunate

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the Post, but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.