281 Quotes About Assumptions

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

The author called us to re-examine assumptions bequeathed to us from Greece and Rome. Just as a bridge built by the Roman Empire might have held up tolerably for centuries under foot traffic but crumble under the weight of a modern truck, the author cautions that classical thinking had limits exposed by contemporary events and certainly exposed by the modern world.

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

People will be asking how did we get here or why we are always lost generation ? It is because people perceptions and assumptions override facts these days.

Just because I am queer doesn't mean I am queer for you

Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truthof Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications.