Quotes About Assumption

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

The secular" must not be thought of as the space in which real human life gradually emancipates itself from the controlling power of "religion" and thus achieves the latter's relocation. It is this assumption that allows us to think of religion as "infecting" the secular domain or as replicating within it the structure of theological concepts.

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

que rien n'est jamais acquis et que nos fragilités restent, malgré les masques de la force. La force, finalement, c'est d'assumer ses fragilités et non se persuader qu'on les a dépassées, à moins que le fait de les dépasser consiste simplement à les assumer...

she looks me up and down like I might be holding her grandbabies hostage in my body.

What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful.

What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful. 7A

There's a palpable frustration with the assumption that everyone who's under the age of 25 has got the attention span of a gnat and isn't interested in events and ideas.

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

Before anyone learns my last name, they always assume I have some type of Latin background in me somewhere. I love it! I think the Latin culture is sexy. It's one of my goals to learn to speak Spanish one day; then I will really be able to fool people!

I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.

I don't know anything about bullying in Huntington Beach specifically, but I would assume it's very similar to other places.

I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and 'civil,' and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you build a network, an association.