Assumption Quotes

Interrogate yours hidden assumptions

— Cornel West

Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

— Terence McKenna

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

— William Shakespeare

Assumptions are dangerous things.

— Agatha Christie

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

— Anat R. Admati

“I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.”

— Red Haircrow

Don't make assumptions.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

“It's wrong to anticipate evil.”

— Emily Brontë

“Spirituality is not adopting more beliefs and assumptions but uncovering the best in you.”

— Amit Ray

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

— Douglas Wilson

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science.”

— Anonymous

“Don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.”

— Ivanka Trump

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

— Adrienne Rich

It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption

— C. West Churchman

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.

— Edsger Dijkstra

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that…

— Jean Kerr

The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.

— George Soros

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

— Stephen Vizinczey

“Making the assumption that I am in the presence of criminals has always kept me safe when interacting with police officers.”

— Steven Magee

Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.

— Steven Sinofsky

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

— David Platt

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it…

— Henry Petroski

Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most…

— Cornelius Van Til

The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to…

— Mark Nepo

There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And,…

— Pico Iyer

Most Americans instinctively recoil from the claim that there is an antireligious bias running through the underlying assumptions with which their society…

— Stephen V Monsma

Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned…

— Mary Blakely

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for…

— John Spratt

Dr. King's policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to…

— Stokely Carmichael

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative…

— Martin Esslin

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any…

— Anonymous

Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with…

— David G. McAfee

...but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death…

— Jonathan Maberry

“You already beat yourself up for enough things that aren't your fault. People who care don't want to add to that." He…

— Jim Butcher

Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The rottenness of politics in Yugoslavia didn't come as a surprise. The main lesson is that this is a war which could…

— Tony Judt