Assuming Quotes

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.

Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.

Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.

When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

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

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

If you have problems in your life, don’t assume there is something wrong with you.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.

When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

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.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

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

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

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

Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume that it rightfully falls within our jurisdiction.

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.

I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.