281 Quotes About Assumptions

Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

We all make assumptionsevery day. Some more important than others. Some more damagingthan others. And things, very often, are not at all what they seem.

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.

We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.

often finds a more interesting story behind the conventional one. Martin Luther's supposedly revolutionary resistance to indulgences took place in a German state where they were sold. Even more intriguing, they weren't sold because the ruling authorities there get a brisk business in holy relics – which Luther left alone.

Of England's patrician class, the author writes: "It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.

Even while an atheist, he held some things sacred.

Very often, people embarking on such guesswork make the vulgar assumption that the lower the motives, the more likely they are to be authentic.