Assumptions Quotes

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.

Charlie Caruso

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

Mortimer J. Adler

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.

Joseph J. Ellis

Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.

Tom Clancy

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.

Christina Baker Kline

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.

David Pietrusza

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.

Malcolm Gladwell

People in one of two states in a relationship. The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It's a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they'll say,'Oh, he's just in a crummy mood.'Or they can be in negative sentiment override, said that even a relatively new tool thing that a partner says get perceived as negative. In negative sentiment override state, people draw lasting conclusions about each other. If their spouse does something positive, it's a selfish person doing a positive thing. It's really hard to change their states, and those states determine whether when one party tries to repair things, the other party sees that as repair or hostile manipulation.

John Gottberg

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

Karl Barth

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.

Thomas L. Friedman

That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.

Steven Johnson

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

George Eliot

They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.

Pandora Poikilos

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

Abhishek Ratna

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

Malcolm X

It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-giving, and preference for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order.

George Eliot

Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.

Truth Devour

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

Grace Draven

Learning to be aware of what you unconsciously know may depend on a line of focused effort and specialized knowledge and even some measure of aptitude, but actually learning it may be effortless, automatic, and require very little of what we normally think of as intelligence.

Gregory C. Carlson

Gytha Ogg, you wouldn’t be a witch if you couldn’t jump to conclusions, right?” Nanny nodded. “Oh, yes.” There was no shame in it. Sometimes there wasn’t time to do anything else but take a flying leap. Sometimes you had to trust to experience and intuition and general awareness and take a running jump. Nanny herself could clear quite a tall conclusion from a standing start.

Terry Pratchett

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military - or a disciplined, up-to-date military anyway - in its focus on concrete results. How else would companies survive fierce competition? But what I encountered was a culture riven with assumptions unrelated to those that underlie the fact- and logic-based worlds of, say science and journalism - a culture addicted to untested habits, paralyzed by conformity, and shot through with magical thinking.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Sherif A. El-Mawardy

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.

William Crawford Gorgas

It makes Brooke feel strange in her stomach. It is like the feeling when she reads a book like the one about the man with the bomb, or thinks a sentence, just any old sentence like: the girl ran across the park, and unless you add the describing word then the man or the girl are definitely not black, they are white, even though no one has mentioned white, like when you take the the out of a headline and people just assume it's there anyway. Though if it were a sentence about Brooke herself you'd have to add the equivalent describing word and that's how you'd know. The black girl ran across the park.

Ali Smith

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

Shannon L. Alder

Do you really understand all this army stuff?It helps not to be too bright, sir.

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

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

Judith Lennox

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

Bryan Davis

I might be quiet, but that doesn't mean I'm not independent.

Sneha Ameya

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

Philip Houston

I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

Sonia Estrada

Never judge a woman by her age.

A.J. Darkholme

He was cross-examining my subconscious .

Ransom Riggs

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

Kevin Thoman

Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.

Barbara W. Tuchman

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

Randy Alcorn

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

Sara Sheridan

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

Harold Bloom

Problems don’t actually exist. They’re just the hallucinogenic effects of people being weirded out on what they think life is supposed to be.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be. I notice when the sky is blue. I smile down at children. I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor. I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own. And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't. I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either.

Richelle E. Goodrich

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.

Rick Perlstein

Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded.

Michele Jennae

Listen with an open mind, gather all the incoming information, both verbal and non-verbal and be careful not to ignore things you don’t wish to hear. Don’t make assumptions or jump to conclusions. The punchline usually comes at the end!

Graham Speechley

Assuming less does not make you naive, it makes you a better listener.

Terry a O'Neal

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.

André Gide

It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.

R.C. Sproul

There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.

George F. Will

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.

Harold Bloom

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

David Brooks

Don’t build roadblocks out of assumptions.

Lorii Myers

I know I have this judgmental side that I'm often fighting against. But today I recognized the depths of my assumptions about people. What I envision is nothing remotely similar to the reality. Humility hurts. Coming home is disturbing.

Cindy McCormick Martinusen

You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.

James Carl Nelson

A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different." Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect.

Sherry Turkle

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Richard Rohr

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

Tom Vanderbilt

You’re going to listen to me, and for once you’re going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren’t there.

Genna Rulon

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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