Assumptions Quotes - Page 2

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

Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.

Donna Lynn Hope

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

George Eliot

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

John Maynard Keynes

Conventional wisdom won't provide continual growth.

Jason Jennings

Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.

Nathan McCall

The author called us to re-examine assumptions bequeathed to us from Greece and Rome. Just as a bridge built by the Roman Empire might have held up tolerably for centuries under foot traffic but crumble under the weight of a modern truck, the author cautions that classical thinking had limits exposed by contemporary events and certainly exposed by the modern world.

Francis A.Schaeffer

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.

James MacDonald

God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.

John Mark Reynolds

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

David Brooks

I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.

Rebekah Nathan

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

John Kasich

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

David Halberstam

The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are preparing children for. In traditional societies this was clear, as parents prepared children for a society and for roles much like their own. She writes, "There is no folk wisdom.

Jennifer Senior

Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realize that society is changing until the change has already come.

James Burnham

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

Tom Vanderbilt

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

Stephen Crane

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

James Still

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

Barbara W. Tuchman

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

Matt Chandler

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

John Howard Griffin

Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.

David Pietrusza

A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality

Harold Bloom

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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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.

Gregory C. Carlson

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.

Charles Murray

A favor is a friendly, gracious, kind, generous or obliging act that is freely granted. It is offered and not solicited.A promise is a declaration assuring that one will or will not do something. It is a vow to commit oneself by a promise to do or give. It is a pledge: to make a declaration assuring that something will or will not be done.When you assume and mistook favor for a promise, then misunderstanding comes in. Learn to distinguish clearly between a favor and a promise to avoid false expectations, blind hopes and deep disappointments.Never demand on favours given.Never impose on mistaken promises.Never put under pressure the people who have given you favor.Have a humble and grateful heart for both favors and promises fulfilled.

Angelica Hopes

We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

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

Criss Jami

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.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, you’re blindly sauntering along.

Auliq-Ice

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!

Israelmore Ayivor

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.

Joel Barker

Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.

Harold Bloom

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

Max McKeown

Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. “It wakes us right up.

Jonah Lehrer

We live our lives supposing things are as they appear to be when that is almost never the case.

Richelle E. Goodrich

There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

E B White

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

Eric Hirzel

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

Charles Bukowski

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

Sara Sheridan

Positive assumptions are needed only when you have negative assumptions that you’re trying to overcome. But when you drop your assumptions altogether, your soul stands naked in the open fields of possibility. And what you choose to create from that space is up to you.

T.K. Coleman

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

Russell Eric Dobda

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Idries Shah

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

Criss Jami

Be careful of what you assume, what you assume often becomes what you consume

Constance Friday

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

Constance Friday

If you are going to judge others it is wisest to do so individually not collectively and on your own direct experience of them personally. But first - and throughout - examine yourself closely. Blurred vision can often occur due to the lens, perspective and perceptions of the viewer projected onto the object that it sees. Be wary of taking to the judges seat. Above all meet at treat yourself and everyone else mindfully, compassionately with humanity.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.

Antonin Scalia

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.

Harold Bloom

A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand

David Pietrusza

Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!

Gary Rohrmayer

Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.

Farshad Asl

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

Criss Jami

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

Marshall McLuhan

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