Assumption Quotes

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities.

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

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

Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?

Ignorance is brought about by assumption.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.

Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules and assumptions of our civilizations.

The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.

Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions.

One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.

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

The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to-- ironically-fait h!

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.

The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous.

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

Don't make assumptions.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.