Quotes About Assumption

Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment.

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to reinfect yourself. "Let the dead bury the dead" [Matthew 8:22; Luke 9:60]. Turn from appearances and assume the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you wish to be.

Many historians still tend to assume that the spread of an idea or an ideology is a function of its inherent content in relation to some vaguely specified context. We must now acknowledge, however, that some ideas go viral because of structural features of the network through which they spread. They are least likely to do so in a hierarchical, top-down network, where horizontal peer-to-peer links are prohibited.

The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having their own...

Because of what I did and where I came from, people just assumed I'd climbed every mountain in my country.

I was sort of mute when I went to art school. There were two girls there who thought I was German because I only grunted.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page.

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.

There's a bit of a myth that you pre-suppose every European player is better than every English player.

There were always people in the audience that judged me on the way I looked. They just assumed, because I was a girl, that I wasn't going to be any good, and it motivated me to improve and nail it every night.

When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.

I think something that really shocked me as a nanny were parents who sort of assumed the worst from the get-go. People who didn't accept the benefit of the doubt.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

Lady Vereesa, Lady Sylvanas—you are ordered to report to His Majesty, the king, at once." The two sisters looked at each other. "Something you did?" Vereesa asked—not as an accusation, but as a simple question. Sylvanas wasn't angry; it was a reasonable assumption.

Very often, people embarking on such guesswork make the vulgar assumption that the lower the motives, the more likely they are to be authentic.

If the matter is one that can be settled by observation, make the observation yourself. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. He did not do so because he thought he knew. Thinking that you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone.

If belief in a god has to proceed from the assumption that he exists, belief in revelation has first to proceed from the assumption that a god exists and then to go further to the assumption that he communicates his will to certain men. But both are mere assumptions. Neither is, in the present state of knowledge, at all capable of proof.

but no one is more heavily burdened than a guy who thinks he knows a thing.

When emotional intelligence was first discovered, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20 percent of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70 percent of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into what many people had always assumed was the source of success—IQ. Scientists

Nyasha . . . became quite annoyed and delivered a lecture on the dangers of assuming that Christian ways were progressive ways. 'It's bad enough, she said severely, 'when a country gets colonised, but when the people do as well! That's the end, really, that's the end.

Don't build a castle of suspicions on one word.

Perception is always interrogative and conditional and is invariably based (even if we do not realize it) on a bet.

If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them.