Quotes About Assumption

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me." During the period of our education, or our domestication, we learn to take everything personally. We think we are responsible for everything. Me, me, me, always me!

Hemos acordado que hacer preguntas es peligroso, y que la gente que nos ama debería saber qué queremos o cómo nos sentimos. Cuando creemos algo, suponemos que tenemos razón hasta el punto de llegar a destruir nuestras relaciones para defender nuestra posición.

How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three of them jumped the fourth and began beating him up?

Životopisci neznají sexuální život svých vlastních manželek, ale myslí si, že vÄ›dí vÅ¡echno o pohlavních tajemstvích Stendhala nebo Faulknera.

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

For now, we will simply assume that one way or another, the early universe transitioned into this low-entropy, highly ordered configuration, sparking the bang and allowing us to declare that the rest is history.

Suspicions have a way of becoming "facts," even if they have no basis in truth.

Suspicions have a way of becoming "facts," even if they have no basis in truth. —PRINCESS IRULAN, The Book of Muad'Dib

The pseudoheterosexual interpretation of animal behavior offers striking parallels to stereotypical views about human homosexuality. Scientific puzzlement over assigning animals male or female roles echoes the refrain often heard by gay and lesbian people, who are frequently asked, Which one plays the man (or woman)? The assumption is that homosexual relationships must be modeled after heterosexual ones - a view that is as narrow a conception of human relationships as it is of animal sexuality.

And so that generation was deprived of the one element that is essential to the operation of a free society—the ability to assume, in the absence of good proof to the contrary, that men in public life are generally decent, honorable, and loyal. Because that element was lacking, the wisest man could be reasonable with only part of his mind; a certain area had to be given over to emotions which were all the more mad and overpowering because he shared them with everyone else.

I can only hope he's an Aries and not a Scorpio.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

La prueba de ausencia no es prueba de ausencia

Morning followed night, as it always does, but Ben awoke questioning the assumption that it necessarily must.

The trouble was, the trolls up in the plaza probably weren't bad trolls, and the dwarfs down in the square probably weren't bad dwarfs, either. People who probably weren't bad could kill you.

The human mind was expert at filling in missing details and confidently turning them into facts, even if those facts were merely imagined.

But to make someone else happy, you have to understand that person's needs, suffering, and desires and not assume you know what will make them happy. Ask, "What would make you happy?" THE RIGHT GIFT In Vietnam there is a fruit that many people love called durian.

I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there.

People will always have judgments, but they don't actually know me.

People look at your CV and assume you jump from job to job to job. They don't see the months in between where you're waiting for the phone to ring, or you're waiting to hear about things.

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

I don't know who the actresses all are. I've never heard of Kate but I'm sure she'll do fine.

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.