Assuming Quotes - Page 5

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank?

Why assume that to look is to see?

If you never assume importance, you never lose it.

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.