Quotes About Assumption

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.

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.

There is nothing in the world that we can count on, even that we will wake up is an assumption

DIANA: Well, how was I supposed to know that? MARY: Maybe because we mentioned it over and over again? DIANA: You're assuming that I listen.

Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.

If there is a devil at work then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that we're all utterly powerless, that's the devil at work.

Common to the many theories about the birth trauma is the assumption that the feelings produced by this event were recorded and reside in some form in the brain. This assumption is supported by the great number of repetitious dreams of the "drainage pipe" variety

No man ought to despise or in any way injure another man without urgent cause: and, consequently, unless we have evident indications of a person's wickedness, we ought to deem him good, by interpreting for the best whatever is doubtful about him.

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

When you get on a comedy show, people assume you're a comedian. I'd say I'm more of a comedy nerd.

In a lot of comedy shows, there's a safety net where you don't assume anything of real consequence will happen.

People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

I've absolutely no idea where Culoiseau is, but I'd imagine La Poularde de Culoiseau is some kind of chicken.

One funny thing I realized is how many people had no idea that I was gay because they don't bother to look it up or ask.

hour?" The flustered woman glanced from Jesse back to Dameon. "I'm… sorry. I assumed

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

if you assume that there is no hope,then you guarantee that there will be no hope. if you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is possibility that you can contribute to making a better world

I'm annoyed because he assumed I'd have dinner with him, then continued to assume I would even after I refused. It's a normal reaction.

We must start from the premise that—in all likelihood—we are already wrong. And not "wrong" in the sense that we are examining questions and coming to incorrect conclusions, because most of our conclusions are reasoned and coherent. The problem is with the questions themselves.

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.