Quotes About Assumption

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

Of course I have no right to assume that I shall go to heaven. Sounds rather dull, as a matter of fact.

explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way to save face. It's also a way to forget the power of a story and of a storyteller, the power in the margins, and the potential for change.

Pero los hombres que explican cosas aún asumen que soy, en una obscena metáfora fecundadora, un recipiente vacío que debe ser rellenado con su sabiduría y conocimiento.

But explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

We resort to a series of programs and practices like job rotation, reverse evaluation, and self-management. They're intended to help people tap their reservoir of talent and to preclude the need for weeding out. We never assume there are weeds among us.

Each of us places varying degrees of significance on what's really relevant and important, and we can almost always find fault with the way someone else is thinking or behaving. We can usually validate our own versions of reality by focusing on examples that, we believe, prove us to be right. In short, the way we see life will always seem justified, logical, and correct—to ourselves. The problem is, everyone else has the same assumption.

I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.

Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'.

A widespread assumption, which nearly everybody in our society accepts – the non-religious included – is that religious faith is especially vulnerable to offence and should be protected by an abnormally thick wall of respect, in a different class from the respect that any human being should pay to any other.

It is widely admitted that serious error follows from the uncritical assumption that adaptations are for the good of the species.

Very low probability, but short of zero. De facto atheist. 'I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.

We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it.

It's easy to get the feeling that you know the language just because when you order a beer they don't bring you oysters. (Paul Child)

If I failed to display negatives, then positives would be assumed: this was how it worked.

But then lovers always assume that people are on their side.

Just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball, or even that I want to.

Apparently, all you needed to be considered normal was no evidence to the contrary.

Dyadic completion," Paul would've told Claire. "The human brain tends to assume that, if there's a victim, there has to be a villain.

Burjuva toplumunda, her insan?n meta al?c?s? olarak meta hakk?nda ansiklopedik bilgi sahibi oldu?u fictio juris'i (varsay?m?) egemendir.

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

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.