100 Quotes About Assumption

We all make them: assumptions. It happens when we’re busy and we’re not always thinking about what we say and do. We don’t think we’re doing it but we usually do. And that’s the problem: we’re making assumptions, and they can sometimes be wrong Read more

But they can also be right. Just because you assume something doesn’t mean there isn’t more than one way to interpret or hear what someone says. And just because someone makes an assumption about you doesn’t mean you have to take it personally or let it get in your way of getting your goals done.

With these quotations on assumptions, you can increase your awareness of your own mistakes while still making the best decisions for yourself.

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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 to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions. Miguel Ruiz
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I had just heard tales that the Valkyrie were large warriors, akin to Amazons.”“If you’re the sole survivor of an army attacked by us, are you going to say we had our asses handed to us by petite, nubile females, or by she-monsters who can bench Buicks? Kresley Cole
It's always your assumptions about you, about others, about future...
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It's always your assumptions about you, about others, about future that make reality worse than it actually is. Dragos Bratasanu
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All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory, Sometimes, it is assumptions that we use; all we need is a theory, Because you don’t know what is there in the future, And all you need is a vision to make a perfect picture. I feel that I have known you for a century, And whatever she calls is a memory. Nishikant
You can'tassume i'min bad shapejust becausei've run out ofthe energy...
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You can'tassume i'min bad shapejust becausei've run out ofthe energy toimpressyou. Curtis Tyrone Jones
A persons character is shown through their actions in life...
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A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday. Navonne Johns
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them...
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. Isaac Asimov
I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.
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I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know. A.J. Jacobs
Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as...
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Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists. George F. Will
Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them.
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Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them. Sam Owen
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you...
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I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. Abraham H. Maslow
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My point is this – you don't know. When I was first here, people looked at my hair, noticed apples on my tray, and thought 'hippie.' Then, from 'hippie' they thought 'druggie.' From there it went to 'will get me in trouble' and 'not worth my time, ' and then they stopped thinking at all. No one bothered to find out if what they thought about me was true. No one wanted to hear what I thought. No one cared what I believed in. No one cared about talking to me or asking what my plans were for the day or night. And then came you. Don't let what you think you know make him into what I could have been. Don't become someone who doesn't think, just because you don't like him for some reason. Because, quite frankly, I like how you think. Except for now, of course. Rebecca McKinsey
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out...
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. Marshall McLuhan
I am not convinced within myself that to its core...
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I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly. Criss Jami
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Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect. Farshad Asl
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Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions! Gary Rohrmayer
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One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies. Harold Bloom
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A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom. Antonin Scalia
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If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people Unknown
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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions. Idries Shah
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We can change reality just from assumptions accepted as true, regardless if they could be quantifiably accepted as true through the physical Russell Eric Dobda
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Positive assumptions are needed only when you have negative assumptions that you’re trying to overcome. But when you drop your assumptions altogether, your soul stands naked in the open fields of possibility. And what you choose to create from that space is up to you. T.K. Coleman
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People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two. Sara Sheridan
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I feel no grief for being called somethingwhich I am not;in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a goodback rub Charles Bukowski
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Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts. Eric Hirzel
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There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception. E.B. White
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Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups. Max McKeown
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Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us. Harold Bloom
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One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS. Harold Holzer
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Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches. Marty Rubin
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As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck. Gregory C. Carlson
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Over time, I discovered that learning new things doesn't always liberate you. Instead it makes you wonder if your pants are on backward or if the trees are holding the sky up - it makes you question all of your assumptions and conventions. Dee Williams
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You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me. Jodi Picoult
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It is not really wise to make too many assumptions when you don’t yet have all the facts to do so. You may believe your conclusions are logical, while they may turn out to be totally wrong. Sahara Sanders
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You will make a perfectly rational mistake: You will assume that sooner or later the paradigm you are presently practicing (which has been mostly successful) will solve all the rest of your problems. Joel Barker
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Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, you’re blindly sauntering along. Auliq Ice
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Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection Rasheed Ogunlaru
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It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind. Richard M. Weaver
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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 the spirit. Vera Nazarian
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Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself. Phillip Mann
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He treats the person as if they were fully whole. We become what others expect us to be. Dad expected me to get better and even assumed I would have something helpful to say. Funny how we rise and fall to the assumptions of others. Nathan Foster
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Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. Sara Sheridan
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We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become. . Sue SavageRumbaugh
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A favor is a friendly, gracious, kind, generous or obliging act that is freely granted. It is offered and not solicited. A promise is a declaration assuring that one will or will not do something. It is a vow to commit oneself by a promise to do or give. It is a pledge: to make a declaration assuring that something will or will not be done. When you assume and mistook favor for a promise, then misunderstanding comes in. Learn to distinguish clearly between a favor and a promise to avoid false expectations, blind hopes and deep disappointments. Never demand on favours given. Never impose on mistaken promises. Never put under pressure the people who have given you favor. Have a humble and grateful heart for both favors and promises fulfilled. Angelica Hopes
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The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk. Charles Murray
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Words in the head are sticky and social creatures — when you finally pull one out, you're liable to get lots of bits of meanings that have rubbed onto them as a result of their palling around with other words. Gregory C. Carlson
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The habit of mobility had become ingrained. Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing. David Pietrusza
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A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality Harold Bloom
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Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved. Alexis De Tocqueville
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The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners. Alexis De Tocqueville
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When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us. Unknown
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Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty John Howard Griffin
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Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government. Barbara W. Tuchman
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It always matters who the storyteller is. It’s a lens. James Still
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The road itself tells us far more than signs do. Tom Vanderbilt
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He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range. Stephen Crane
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Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realize that society is changing until the change has already come. James Burnham
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The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are preparing children for. In traditional societies this was clear, as parents prepared children for a society and for roles much like their own. She writes, "There is no folk wisdom. Jennifer Senior
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I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted. Rebekah Nathan
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If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm. David Halberstam
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Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart. James MacDonald
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God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop. John Mark Reynolds
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(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits. David Brooks
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The author called us to re-examine assumptions bequeathed to us from Greece and Rome. Just as a bridge built by the Roman Empire might have held up tolerably for centuries under foot traffic but crumble under the weight of a modern truck, the author cautions that classical thinking had limits exposed by contemporary events and certainly exposed by the modern world. Francis A. Schaeffer
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Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood. Nathan McCall
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Conventional wisdom won't provide continual growth. Jason Jennings
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. John Maynard Keynes
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The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic. George Eliot
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You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle. Julian Seifter
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You’re going to listen to me, and for once you’re going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren’t there. Genna Rulon
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Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve. Tom Vanderbilt
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True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct. Richard Rohr
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You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys. James Carl Nelson
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A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different." Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect. Sherry Turkle
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I know I have this judgmental side that I'm often fighting against. But today I recognized the depths of my assumptions about people. What I envision is nothing remotely similar to the reality. Humility hurts. Coming home is disturbing. Cindy McCormick Martinusen
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Don’t build roadblocks out of assumptions. Lorii Myers
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When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation. Harold Bloom
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It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options. David Brooks
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There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred. George F. Will
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It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream. R.C. Sproul
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Assuming less does not make you naive, it makes you a better listener. Terry A ONeal
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Listen with an open mind, gather all the incoming information, both verbal and non-verbal and be careful not to ignore things you don’t wish to hear. Don’t make assumptions or jump to conclusions. The punchline usually comes at the end! Graham Speechley
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Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded. Michele Jennae
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Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you. Rick Perlstein
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That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine. Barbara W. Tuchman
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Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be.  I notice when the sky is blue.  I smile down at children.  I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor.  I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own.  And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't.  I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either. . Richelle E. Goodrich
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Problems don’t actually exist. They’re just the hallucinogenic effects of people being weirded out on what they think life is supposed to be. Richelle E. Goodrich
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It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory. Harold Bloom
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Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation. Sara Sheridan
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We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you? Randy Alcorn
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Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it. Barbara W. Tuchman
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The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct. Kevin Thoman
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I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way? Sonia Estrada
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There's only a casual relationship between human behavior and logic. Philip Houston
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I might be quiet, but that doesn't mean I'm not independent. Sneha Ameya
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Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late. Bryan Davis
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Often she felt as though she had been picked up and turned about like a kaleidoscope, that all her complacent assumptions had been shaken up and reassembled in a different order Judith Lennox
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Do you really understand all this army stuff? It helps not to be too bright, sir. Unknown