Quotes About Assumption

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

It can never happen!"—as well say, "Because I have never broken my leg, my leg is unbreakable," or "Because I've never died, I am immortal.

Men see what they expect to see,

It is that white privilege that has implications for my Black body. You see, to be Black in America is to be always already known. And white people assume that they know everything about me.

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

You're an arrogant woman, Eve. Just one more aspect of you that I find attractive. It's arrogant to assume responsibility for events beyond our control.

Entonces, será que lo ha asumido por sí mismo. Por la idea que tiene del mundo, un mundo en el que los hombres no emplean palas para golpear cadáveres y darles una forma más conveniente para su posterior procesamiento

Tohr shrugged. "Assuming he's kept the same ones on, they're a total of five. Three cousins. That porn star Zypher—" Rhage harrumphed at that. Clearly, even though he was now very happily mated, he felt like the race had one, and only one, sex legend—and it was him.

Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.

He wished he'd greeted her with something other than a reminder that they'd had sex the night before for the first time, though only because he assumed she was a prostitute that he'd bought and paid for, for the sole reason that he'd needed a woman that looked like her or he couldn't get it up.

He wished he'd greeted her with something other than a reminder that they'd had sex the night before for the first time, though only because he had assumed she was a prostitute that he'd bought and paid for, for the sole reason that he'd needed a woman that looked like her or he couldn't get it up.

Damn it—why do you assume I'm naive?" She glared up at him. "You have no idea what it's been like my whole life, seeing all these shadows and never having them explained.

I have made the mistaken assumption - and I will attempt to be better at this - of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

You can't always tell if someone's gay over Twitter, but when he's talking to you about 'Real Housewives,' it's probably OK to assume.

You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.

It's the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once, you assume that what you've seen is typical. That's because 'typical' is just another way of saying 'most probable.'

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

Assuming that Iran could become the only oil producer unable to export its oil is a wrong assumption... The United States will never be able to cut Iran's oil revenues.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.