Quotes and Sayings About Assumption

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.
-- Aaron Huey

#Photography #World #Assumption

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.
-- Aaron Levie

#Done #Way #Assumption

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
-- Aberjhani

#Black #Assumption #Individual

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

#Assumption

Assumptions are dangerous things.
-- Agatha Christie

#Assumption #Dangerous

Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Christian #Manipulation #Assumption

And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.
-- Al Gore

#Earth #Assumption #Social

The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
-- Al Sharpton

#Party #People #Assumption

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.
-- Alain Badiou

#Assumption

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
-- Alan Dean Foster

#People #Assumption #Dead People

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.
-- Albert J. Nock

#Giving #Assumption #Social

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
-- Albert Low

#Numbers #Simplicity #Assumption

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 worked and about how safe I was.
-- Alice Sebold

#World #Safe #Assumption

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.
-- Anat R. Admati

#Assumption #Economist

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.
-- Angelo Donghia

#Mother #Screw Ups #Assumption

The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!
-- Astro Teller

#Assumption #Fallacy #Humans

The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.
-- Avinash Persaud

#Risk #Management #Assumption

I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.
-- Bill Bradley

#New York #Cities #Assumption

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
-- Bryant H. McGill

#Never Quit #Assumption #Quitting

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.
-- Bum Phillips

#Sports #Assumption #Trouble

But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.
-- C.C. Hunter

#Facts #Assumption

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
-- Carol Anshaw

#Character #Gay #Assumption

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.
-- Charles Lyell

#Curiosity #Causes #Assumption

People, please remember that I choose my words very carefully. Assumptions are your enemy.
-- Chris Kluwe

#People #Enemy #Assumption

I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.
-- Christina Baker Kline

#Trying #Be Kind #Assumption

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Civilization #Assumption #Importance

Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality.
-- Cornelius Van Til

#Reality #Self #Assumption

When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.
-- Dan Savage

#Kids #Gay #Assumption

We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.
-- Darren Shan

#Assuming #Assumption #Sometimes

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.
-- David Baldacci

#Facts #Assumption #Dangerous