281 Quotes About Assumptions

If you leave assumptions lying around unchallenged and uncorrected, it isn’t long before they morph into facts.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

How can you test whether something's an assumption? Try this: switch things around, and check how bananas everybody goes.

Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. More perplexing than that, who on earth could convince them otherwise ?

But as Austen delineates so clearly, you can't stop people from making assumptions if they're so inclined. You can only do your best to show your character through your actions and hope that other people will be capable of forming sound opinions. And if you're a realist like Austen, you'll also be wise enough to realize how many people aren't up to it.

You know what America is-they're all like spoiled children. Anything goes, isn't that what they say?

Mistress?” the leader would say. “Do not tell me that such a beauty as yourself dwells all alone?”“Oh, yes,” I would answer. “Quite alone.”He would smile. He could not help it. There was never any fear in him. Why should there be? He had already noted for himself that there was no man’s cloak hanging by the door, no hunter’s bow, no shepherd’s staff. No sign of brothers or fathers or sons, no vengeance that would follow after. If I were valuable to anyone, I would not be allowed to live alone.

TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: "It won't work. You can't cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary's clerk.

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. In one moment, a leap of logic becomes a fall from grace.