Assumptions Quotes

320 Assumptions quotes by 273 unique authors

...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse,… — Muriel Barbery
The worst thing about e-mail is that you canâ€™t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back,… — George Carlin
The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured. — Jennifer Estep
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than… — C.S. Lewis
Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair… — Bell Hooks
A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape… — Vera Nazarian
When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world… — Alice Sebold
The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a… — Michael Pollan
Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which… — Thomas Hardy
All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is… — Peter Shaffer
As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of… — Mohsin Hamid
If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions.… — Deb Caletti
Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions. — Frank Herbert
The fate of millions of peopleâ€”indeed the future of the black community itselfâ€”may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to… — Michelle Alexander
We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to… — Pema Chodron
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe,… — Peter Singer
Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions. — Rick Yancey
...but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death really means anymore.… — Jonathan Maberry
We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was… — Julian Barnes

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