Quotes About Assumption

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.

No", she said, "I know that you don't like me.""You don't know anything.

Trust doesn't need any proof, its always hypothetical.

He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.

The man that never says "no" when questioned on subjects of which he is entirely ignorant, to avoid, as he imagines, being thought ignorant, but confidently puts forward guesses and assumptions as knowledge, will be known for his ignorance, and ill esteemed for his added conceit. An honest confession of ignorance will command respect where a conceited assumption of knowledge will elicit contempt.

Another weakness found in altogether too many people is the habit of measuring everything, and everyone, by their own impressions and beliefs.

In his Treatise on Human Nature, the Scots philosopher David Hume posed the issue in the following way (as rephrased in the now famous black swan problem by John Stuart Mill): No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans. All you need is one single (and, I am told, quite ugly) black bird.*

One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans.

The source of the tragic in history is in mistaking someone else's unconditional for conditional—and the reverse.

When asked to imagine the future, we have the tendency to take the present as a baseline

had I not known his profession I would have thought

Many of them blindly believe in it.

Black Swan is a sucker's problem. In other words, it occurs relative to your expectation

law of iterated expectations, which I outline here in its strong form: if I expect to expect something at some date in the future, then I already expect that something at present.

Contrary to what people might expect, I am not recommending that

The first error lies in taking a projection too seriously, without heeding its accuracy.

It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not.

Though I'm Punjabi, I'm often mistaken to be a Mexican or Spaniard.

Our concept of One Boeing assumes an integrated business mix of deep commercial and military expertise applied across the global marketplace.

I always knew I was going to be a mommy, and because I came from a family of three kids, I always assumed I would have three!

Many mothers or daughters assume that words only mean one thing. 'If I feel criticised, that has to be the whole story', and 'if I feel I am being helpful, that has to be the whole story'.

Hearing the anecdote, it's easy to assume that Target's algorithms are infallible—that everybody receiving coupons for onesies and wet wipes is pregnant. But nobody ever claimed that it was true.

The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.