Best 323 quotes in «assumption quotes» category

Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. More perplexing than that, who on earth could convince them otherwise ?

Confrontation is better than assumptions.

Domestic animals expect food when they see the person who usually feeds them. We know that all these rather crude expectations of uniformity are liable to be misleading. The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

Drop all those assumptions that success is built on success. Add a very little value to yourself and it will amaze you how you will see people appreciate that value!

Except that stopping mid-sentence is the worst thing people can do. It's, like, totally passive aggressive, because you can't take issue with anything they've said. You have to take issue with what you think they were going to say.

Envy and assumption are different but the two can have same effect on human life. Why making assumptions and why envying the life of another when you sure have 100% of making your life whole.

Her son seemed to be belatedly rebelling against all his celebrated accomplishments- as well as the responsibilities inherent in them, the obligations to own his talents.In that rebellion, she saw a young man who was confused and upset that his life wasn't stacking up to be what he and everyone around him had always assumed it would.

Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.

First of all, moron. You don’t know me. So, don’t act like you do.

For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on.

I don't exactly get to be moody or snappy when I don't feel like putting on a happy face, because when most people meet me, I'm already starting out with a deficit. Fat girls don't get that luxury.

If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.

If you assume you are better than someone, you make yourself relies on that assumption.

I give those who give those who think i don’t give.

I know assuming is easy, and sometimes, reality does not go in the direction of the assumption, but at least, it gives us hope that things may go just right.

In 2004, the FDA urged drug companies to adopt a 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy with respect to their clinical-trial data showing that antidepressants are not better than placebos for depressed children. If the data were made public, they cautioned, it might lead doctors to not prescribe antidepressants. The FDA believed that the jury was still out on antidepressants for children. Even if the clinical trials show negative results, an FDA spokesperson was reported to have said to a Washington Post reporter, it doesn't mean that the drugs are ineffective. The assumption seems to have been that doctors should prescribe medications that have not been shown to work, until it has been proven that they don't work.

Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship.

In any kind of relationship we can make the assumption that others know what we think, and we don’t have to say what we want. They are going to do what we want because they know us so well. If they don’t do what we want, what we assume they should do, we feel hurt and think, “How could you do that? You should know.” Again, we make the assumption that the other person knows what we want. A whole drama is created because we make this assumption and then put more assumptions on top of it.

It may be a fact that the sky seems blue to you. Even so, that does not mean that the sky is blue.

I left the room before I could figure out exactly what bothered me about his response. Was it the way it seemed to assume a future for the two of us? A future in which I would continue to be unable to leave this house? Was it the presumption that I was making a cake for him when, really, I had no idea why I was making a cake at all?

Overconfidence is a lowly bitch that easily fucked.

I’ve always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event.” “Why would you ever think that?

Misunderstanding - A "Missed Understanding" because of the human preference to Assumption over Clarification.

People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause. 'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.

Probably it is your own expectations, failed fantasies, anxious loop of mind trying to control things, made-up scenarios, wrong assumptions, negative biasness & your vanity that makes you suffer more than anything else. Let you stop being stuck, sad & safe in your sufferings. Let you choose to abandon all the falsehoods making yourself free from all kind of self created pains & distresses. Let you remind yourself that it is you who creates the next moment based on what you are doing, feeling & thinking right now. Let you always remain enthusiastic for the thoughts, feelings, responses & actions that adds to your peace, freedom, healing & happiness. Let your grateful spirit, optimistic attitude, love in heart & contented feelings make you to celebrate your life & world more & more. Stay Successful & Blessed!

Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise.

It's a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike.

One of the advantages of confrontation is, you confront people to find out, if your assumptions are right or wrong.

Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.

Some men do not know the father of 'their' children.

Stop being silly. You know what I mean.” No, she really didn’t, and she hated when people made that assumption. If she had known, why would she bother asking?

The danger of exchanging the necessary insecurity of philosophical thought for the total explanation of an ideology and its [worldview], is not even so much the risk of falling for some usually vulgar, always uncritical assumption as of exchanging the freedom inherent in man's capacity to think for the straight-jacket of logic with which man can force himself almost as violently as he is forced by some outside power.

The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement.

The throbbing habits of assumption tinted with malice lead to decisions and actions that drum out faith, trust and respect towards a crashing carelessness and uselessness. Be effective by discarding sneaking suspicions.

This is heaven- sunshine, coffee, and muffin." "You're so different from everyone else," he teased. "How so?" she asked, and took another eager bite. "Other girls are so worried about the way they look." "What?" She sprayed out part of the muffin and coffee. "What's wrong with the way I look?" "Nothing," he answered, but there was amusement in his eyes. "You look great." She handed back the muffin and the coffee, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand. "Then why did you say I don't worry about the way I look?" "I just mean other girls spend hours in front of the mirror and you obviously don't. You seem like the right kind of person to go on adventures with," he answered in a dreamy kind of way. "That's what I want to do. Go on a dig, maybe. Wouldn't you like to uncover mummies or discover an unknown temple in the jungles of Cambodia?" "Why?" she asked with a rising sense of uneasiness. "When you're safe and at home, adventures might seem like fun, but when you're living them, they're not." "I thought you'd enjoy roughing it," he explained. "You don't seem to care about appearances.

The steering wheel is turned by the driver, not the indicator, or the road sign.

We are often deterred, not by what others think or would think, but by what we think they think or would think.

We assume things because it’s easier, lazier. It stops us thinking too hard…usually about stuff that makes us feel uncomfortable. But not thinking can lead to misunderstandings and in some cases, tragedies.

You already beat yourself up for enough things that aren't your fault. People who care don't want to add to that." He paused, and then added gently, "But you assumed it was about you." I finished the beer and sighed. "Arrogance," I said."I feel stupid." "Good," Michael said. "It's good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn.

Your desire to advise other people, grows in line with your perception... that assumes you're wiser than them.

There’s a disadvantage in a stick pointing straight,” answered the other. “What is it? Why, the other end of the stick always points the opposite way. It depends whether you get hold of the stick by the right end.

We have presumed based not on our own but on others’ deaths that we are mortal.

We sometimes feel sorry for someone because of a situation or an event for which they have prayed.

When someone asks a question, don't assume they don't know the answer. Clever people will always test you.

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

When you make any assumption, you are preparing room for error.

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.

Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is the underlying assumption they have that the basis of a market is mutual aid.