Assumptions Quotes

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.

When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.

It always matters who the storyteller is. It’s a lens.

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

Often she felt as though she had been picked up and turned about like a kaleidoscope, that all her complacent assumptions had been shaken up and reassembled in a different order

TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: "It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk.

In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

A judgement results from some kind of consideration of the evidences available and is always better than an assumption!

Be careful of what you assume, what you assume will become what you consume

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.

When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation.

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions

To assume that I can even begin to chart a ‘straight’ path is probably the best way I can take myself ‘straight’ to the very place I don’t want to go.

(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

It has been said already, but bears repeating: no blanket statement can sum up an entire group of people. No book, no chapter, no study, no research report can attempt to do that either. Instead, Understanding Y attempts to start a conversation - one that we hope will delve a little deeper and dispel some commonly held assumptions about Generation Y, a conversation that we hope is the first of many.

It is almost impossible for contemporaries to judge the true value of discoveries, or to give the proper position to the men of their own time who make these discoveries. The Surgeon-General of the Public Health Service expected the greatest results to flow from his commission of medical officers, but the conclusions of the Board turned out to be all wrong, while he did not notice the report from his own subordinate, Dr. H. R. Carter, which turned out to be pure gold and was one of the great steps in establishing the true method of the transmission of Yellow Fever.

In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.

Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them.

I feel no grief for being called somethingwhichI am not;in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a goodback rub

My point is this — you don't know. When I was first here, people looked at my hair, noticed apples on my tray, and thought 'hippie.' Then, from 'hippie' they thought 'druggie.' From there it went to 'will get me in trouble' and 'not worth my time,' and then they stopped thinking at all. No one bothered to find out if what they thought about me was true. No one wanted to hear what I thought. No one cared what I believed in. No one cared about talking to me or asking what my plans were for the day or night. And then came you. Don't let what you think you know make him into what I could have been. Don't become someone who doesn't think, just because you don't like him for some reason. Because, quite frankly, I like how you think. Except for now, of course.

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.

Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.

Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.