281 Quotes About Assumptions

When you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.

The best results in life are often held back by false constructs and untested assumptions.

A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.

If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.

But I have forgotten to tell you how I came into the world, and am telling you my father's story instead of my own. You seem to like hearing about it though, and you can't understand one without the other.

Author discussed what he calls the "narrative fallacy." This refers to our "limited ability" to look at a sequence of facts "without weaving an explanation into them.