Quotes About Assumption

The most important assumption underlying HOS is that all countries have equal productive capabilities – that is, they can use any technology they want.3

However, if everyone were really only out to advance his own interest, the world would have already ground to a halt, as there would be so much cheating in trading and slacking in production. More importantly, if we design our economic system based on such an assumption, the result is likely to be lower, rather than higher, efficiency.

Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our souls, irrespective of whether we trouble to think and talk Christianly, and therefore theologically, about anything we or others may do or say, may turn out to have dire results.

Managers who aspire to be ethical must challenge the assumption that they're always unbiased and acknowledge that vigilance, even more than good intention, is a defining characteristic of an ethical manager.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

One truth that emerges from understanding consciousness in this way is that it makes little sense to assume that individual consciousness evolved first, or that it is the most fundamental form of consciousness.

we didn't always assume that just doing stuff that someone else is paying you for is of value

No matter the planet of origin, parentage, past misdeeds or present challenges-we have to assume that our success or failures come by every individual's choice.

It's weird how we do that, you know, just fill in the blanks with our own answer key. -- I think we create our own reality, our own truths. If we believe it to be so, then it is so.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

Eve was sure he was saluted at birth by the obstetrician instead of spanked.

Our cleaning lady? Of course not. That would be inappropriate and extremely offensive. Why would I dare to assume she didn't want her baby? The thought never crossed my mind and, frankly, I'm surprised it crossed yours.

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

that horrible acts are caused, in part, by our very tendency to assume that some people are naturally evil.

Man has always assumed that his is the highest form of life in the universe. There is, of course, nothing at all with which to sustain this view.

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

Oh! to be sure, cried Emma, it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her.

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured.

Am I to assume you would rather not have us as clients? Let me think about that for a nanosecond, Dickie said. Yes! Last time you were in my office you tried to kill me. That's an exaggeration. Maim you, yes. Kill you, probably not.

Maybe your pregnant. Oops, hold on, you're not pregnant, on account of you're not gettin any.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world.