281 Quotes About Assumptions

Political correctness is as coersive as any right-wing dogma, but it lescapes the tyranny charge because it locates its demands precisely upon feelings

We can change reality just from assumptions accepted as true, regardless if they could be quantifiably accepted as true through the physical

Culture can be invisible to its natives.

He was not what gentlemen usually thought a gentleman was.

You can assume all you want about me. It doesn't mean that it's true.

A trend was a trend only because people thought it so. And in thinking it so, they made it so.

Ideas trickle out of science, into the flow of commerce, where they drift into less protectable eddies of art and philosophy.

Every time we make assumptions about what other people feel, do or think, we imprison them and us in a separate reality. When we believe in those assumptions and act accordingly, this separate reality becomes an existential torture chamber for them and ultimately for us. All the terror and pain that we experience or see in the world is the result of our assumptions. Assumptions are the greatest crime in human consciousness. Hence let's start to create an assumption-free world.

Assess before you Assume