Assumptions Quotes

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

~ David Brooks

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

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

~ Nathan Mccall

An assumption is the joke, truth the punchline.

~ Criss Jami

Conventional wisdom won't provide continual growth.

~ Jason Jennings

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

~ John Maynard Keynes

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

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

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

~ Julian Seifter

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

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

~ Tom Vanderbilt

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

~ Richard Rohr

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

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

Don’t build roadblocks out of assumptions.

~ Lorii Myers

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

There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.

~ George F. Will

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

~ R.c. Sproul

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

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

~ Terry A O'neal

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

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

~ Michele Jennae

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

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

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

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

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

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

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

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

~ Sara Sheridan

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

~ Randy Alcorn

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

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

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

~ Kevin Thoman

He was cross-examining my subconscious .

~ Ransom Riggs

Never judge a woman by her age.

~ A.j. Darkholme

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

~ Sonia Estrada

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