Best 478 quotes in «assuming quotes» category

I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.

I’m assuming those are Daimons. (Susan) No, they’re Avon ladies. (Ravyn)

I'm curious how you'll know it works. I assume it's mostly a cosmetic change.

I'm not the most loved person on the planet. People assume they understand who I am by what I do.

I'm not going to assume liberals are stupid, as they do with conservatives. No, I'll attribute it instead to more fraud and deceit.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

In relationships it is best to assume nothing.

I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

In varying degrees, the authority of the dharma was replaced by the authority of the guru, who came, in some traditions, to assume the role of the Buddha himself.

I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness." I said: "Kaz, everyone is used to the word emptiness for shunyata. This might not sit well with people. He said: "Translator's prerogative!" Then he added, "One cannot assume we know what they meant...." I agreed.

"I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

Is it cynical to assume that anyone smiling is a liar and a criminal?

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

Intention implies assuming you can and have every right to achieve your ambition and that you are powerful enough to make it happen.

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank?

I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be "indie.

I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of assume the worst sometimes.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these megachurches - for me the concern is to not assume they have more authority than they actually have, to not give them a kind of reach that they really don't possess.

I think sequels are very dangerous if you assume and presume success. I think you have to plan each film as a standalone and commit yourself to that as your primary objective.

I think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive.

It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does not happen at all.

It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.

...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.