1. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
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2. “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
3. “Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
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4. “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”
5. “How would your life be different if you stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day… You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
6. “As you dig your teeth into your assumptions, your teeth become sharper. You can dig deeper. You become what the world needs simply by helping yourself. It’s not easy, but it is worth it. The truth, as they say, hurts. But they also say it sets you free.”
7. “In the absence of information, we jump to the worst conclusions.”
8. “Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.”
9. “We never look beyond our assumptions and what’s worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.”
10. “What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.”
11. “While you judge me by my outward appearance, I am silently doing the same to you, even though there’s a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.”
12. “The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there’s gold in letting go of them.”
13. “Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.”
14. “The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.”
15. “The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry”
16. “The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don’t even know you are making.”
17. “The best results in life are often held back by false constructs and untested assumptions.”
18. “The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.”
19. “Spirituality is not adopting more beliefs and assumptions but uncovering the best in you.”
20. “The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong”
21. “Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.”
22. Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, you’re blindly sauntering along.
23. “In any kind of relationship we can make the assumption that others know what we think, and we don’t have to say what we want”
24. “We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”
25. “Making assumptions and then taking them personally is the beginning of hell in this world”
26. “You figured that the only way I’d be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.”
27. “Assuming things is the equivalent of sleepwalking blindfolded on a cliff edge fully expecting a safety net to be there to break the fall should you topple over the precipice.”
28. “The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
29. “Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves”
30. “A judgement results from some kind of consideration of the evidences available and is always better than an assumption!”
31. “Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.”
32. “They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.”
33. “No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities”
34. “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.”
35. “Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.”
36. “People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they’re wrong.”
37. “Always assume your assumptions about others are wrong. Because often, they are”
38. “When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!”
39. “Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.”
40. “It is always better to ask than to make an assumption”
41. “Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.”
42. “Ask if you need to, but don’t assume. Sometimes our bad feelings are only assumptions and speculations doing dark dances in our heads.”
43. When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.
44. “If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.”
45. “Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.”
46. “If you assume that the new — and simply because it’s new — is always to be better than the old, chances are you’ve never known anything valuable.”
47. “It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
48. “If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.”
49. “Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.”
50. “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.”
51. “The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don’t even know you’re making.”
52. “The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.”
53. “Ignorance is brought about by assumption.”
54. “What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.”
55. And if you insist on continuing to make assumptions about my character, I’ll advise you only this: assume you will always be wrong.
56. “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your Windows on the World. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”
57. “It’s a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop”
58. “When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.”
59. “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?”
60. “The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.”
61. “People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.’Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.”
62. “The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.”
63. “Thus we use our supposed “knowledge” of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.”
64. “With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that’s when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.”
65. “But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that’s not a sign of intelligence.”
66. “The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.”
67. “Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.”
68. “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
69. “The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions.”
70. “Sometimes, you have to design from the gut. The funny thing about the gut is that rather than experience, the best UX designers I know operate from a perspective of determining what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s ugly.”
71. “The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality. A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional”
72. “Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.”
73. “A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.”
74. “Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.”
75. “New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them.”
76. “The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.”
