281 Quotes About Assumptions

Sometimes there are no good guys in a story.

There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.

Never judge a woman by her age.

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.

A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality

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.

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty