Quotes About Assumption

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

It's unfortunate how people assume so much about your life based on the work you do.

Being ninety nine percent sure opens for a possibility that you might be a hundred percent wrong.

Is it reasonable to assume that the jarring nature of a particular consequence might be the very thing that strong-arms us away from making the poor choice that we didn't see as a poor choice?

It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person's history from their face.

An ID number is only there to 'identify' human beings. Use it to assume people's intellect or wisdom at your own risk.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray.

Why does it get assumed that Zidane is a figurehead and everything Real achieve is down to the talent of the squad?

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Corbyn and Trump don't seem to have anything in common except the assumption on the part of anyone subscribing at any level to the standard thinking that they could never achieve electoral success. They were supposed to doom, if not destroy, their party's future.

Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

When most people see an adult skipping they assume it must be on the way either to or from the asylum.