Best 176 quotes in «assumptions quotes» category

...the default assumption is that it's better to be nonautistic than it is to be autistic, always. And this assumption has done great damage to autistic and nonautistic people alike.

The disability system makes false assumptions to deny your payments.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.

The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.

The inability to move from one phase of life and change one's self-identity is, "the anxiety of always.

Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

The modern mind is never popular in its own day. People hate being made to think.

The professor argues against measuring effectiveness in the shallow short-term in the "fierce humanities," for teaching that seeks not merely learning, but unlearning, that seeks to unsettle knowledge and assumptions in ways more fundamental than any exam can or should test.

There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct.

The values and assumptions of that household I took in without knowing when or how it happened, and I have them to this day: The pleasure in sharing pleasure. The belief that is is only proper to help lame dogs to get over stiles and young men to put one foot on the bottom rung of the ladder. An impatient disregard for small sums of money. The belief that it is a sin against Nature to put sugar in one's tea. The preference for being home over being anywhere else. The belief that generous impulses should be acted on, whether you can afford to do this or not. The trust in premonitions and the knowledge of what is in wrapped packages. The willingness to go to any amount of trouble to make yourself comfortable. The tendency to take refuge in absolutes. The belief that you don't have to apologize for tears; that consoling words should never be withheld; that what somebody wants very much they should, if possible, have.

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

To assume is to presume.

Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.

Washington not only fit the bill physically, he was also almost perfect psychologically, so comfortable with his superiority that he felt no need to explain himself. (As a young man during the French and Indian war he had been more outspoken, but he learned from experience to allow his sheer presence to speak for itself.) While less confident men blathered on, he remained silent, thereby making himself a vessel into which admirers for their fondest convictions, becoming a kind of receptacle for diverse aspirations that magically came together in one man.

We all make assumptions every day. Some more important than others. Some more damaging than others. And things, very often, are not at all what they seem.

We can change reality just from assumptions accepted as true, regardless if they could be quantifiably accepted as true through the physical

We therapists often make inaccurate assumptions about people living with DID and DDNOS. They often appear to be “just like us,” so we often assume their experience of life reflects our own. But this is profoundly untrue. It results in a communication gap, and, as a consequence, treatment errors. Because the dominant culture is one of persons with a single sense of self, most with multiple “selves” have learned to hide their multiplicity and imitate those who are singletons (that is, have a single, non-fragmented personality). Therapists who do not understand this sometimes describe their clients' alters without acknowledging their dissociation, saying only that they have different “moods.” In overlooking dissociation, this description fails to recognize the essential truth of such disorders, and of the alters. It was difficult for me to comprehend what life was like for my first few dissociative clients.

What appears to be black on white to whites may appear to be all white to black.

When I say "most people" I mean, of course, me after my first cocktail.

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

When you are criticizing the philosophy of an epoch, do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which its exponents feel it necessary explicitly to defend. There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents to all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. With these assumptions a certain limited number of types of philosophic systems are possible, and this group of systems constitutes the philosophy of the epoch.

When you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

There's only a casual relationship between human behavior and logic.

The strength of one's opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.

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.

Troubles always ensue when assumptions clash, when expectations do not match.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Two people don't see same event as opportunity. When one see it a problem; other look to capitalize it for optimum benefit

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.

Very often, people embarking on such guesswork make the vulgar assumption that the lower the motives, the more likely they are to be authentic.

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.

Words in the head are sticky and social creatures – when you finally pull one out, you're liable to get lots of bits of meanings that have rubbed onto them as a result of their palling around with other words.

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

You can assume all you want about me. It doesn't mean that it's true.

You can't assume i'm in bad shape just because i've run out of the energy to impress you.

You know what America is-they're all like spoiled children. Anything goes, isn't that what they say?

When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossible. Taking any assumptions into study is bad science.

You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

Your imagination is tricking you into making negative assumptions about people based on past experience. Your imagination is running the show, and the score is coming imagination one, you zero.

You think you know this story. You do not.

You will make a perfectly rational mistake: You will assume that sooner or later the paradigm you are presently practicing (which has been mostly successful) will solve all the rest of your problems.

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.

You’re making assumptions.” “Deductions; and of course I am. It’s my duty, as your friend.

Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers. Bernard Haisch