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?

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

Ignorance is brought about by assumption.

The bad-boy label is just an 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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