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There's only a casual relationship between human behavior and logic.
— Philip Houston
Assumptions can get you killed. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2
— Luana Ehrlich
Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.
— Milton Friedman
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.
— Tony Hoare
Character displays the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.
— Nathan McCall
But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.
— C.C. Hunter
Always be skeptical of what you learn from experience.
— Marty Rubin
Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions
— Sherif A. El-Mawardy
The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don't take anything personally.
3. Don't make assumptions.
4. Always do your best. — Miguel Ruiz
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don't take anything personally.
3. Don't make assumptions.
4. Always do your best. — Miguel Ruiz
When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.
— Emily Levine
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
— John Sayles
Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
— Brian Tracy
Assumptions equal a loss of pride and the sting of defeat.
— Donna Lynn Hope
The road itself tells us far more than signs do.
— Tom Vanderbilt
The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.
— Steve Blank
What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
— Dallas Willard
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.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
To assume that I can even begin to chart a 'straight' path is probably the best way I can take myself 'straight' to the very place I don't want to go.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.
— Bell Hooks
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
— Jonathan Swift
The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.
— Tom Vanderbilt
Ask if you need to, but don't assume. Sometimes our bad feelings are only assumptions and speculations doing dark dances in our heads.
— Bonnie Lyn Smith
Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.
— Peter Drucker
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions,
not repeated assessment of their validity. — Edward De Bono
not repeated assessment of their validity. — Edward De Bono
We can change reality just from assumptions accepted as true, regardless if they could be quantifiably accepted as true through the physical
— Russell Eric Dobda
It is the hallmark of an educated person to remain skeptical of accepted views and to regard even the most popular beliefs as working assumptions.
— Spencer A. Rathus
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
— Terence McKenna
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
— Ambrose Bierce
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
— Marshall McLuhan
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
— George Eliot
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
— William Of Ockham
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.
— Kim Gordon
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
— Michael Mandelbaum
Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship, so let's you and me not go there, okay?
— Ruth Ozeki
One of the few things I've learned since then about the fundamental differences between the sexes is this: men make assumptions, but women rarely do.
— Stephen King
Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.
— Edith Hamilton
Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The beaten path can be a busy and distracting place.
— Richard Brookhiser
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
— Andrew Solomon
Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.
— Idries Shah
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
— John Howard Griffin
Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.
— David Baldacci
Relationship Principle 6
Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential. — Sherry Argov
Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential. — Sherry Argov
The options are limitless, but each path begins with the same first step: replacing assumptions.
— Timothy Ferriss
To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.
— Richard Lindzen
Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.
— Laurie R. King
Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, you're blindly sauntering along.
— Auliq Ice
Haven't you learned you should never judge a book by its cover? There is a lot of assumptions you've made based on appearance.
— S.J.D. Peterson
Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide.
— Matthew Scully
A man is just a life support system for assumptions.
— Damon Suede
[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.
— Jonah Goldberg
Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.
— Frank Herbert
Even while an atheist, he held some things sacred.
— Philip Zaleski
Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ...
As distance always doesn't ensure solutions — Adil Adam Memon
As distance always doesn't ensure solutions — Adil Adam Memon
It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.
— Sebastian Thrun
I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski
Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.
— Douglas Adams
Theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.
— Milton Friedman
(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.
— David Brooks
If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.
— David Halberstam
The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.
— Sara Sheridan
Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know.
— Miguel Ruiz
That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.
— Simon Pegg
Fifth, you learn to recognize and question the depression-sowing assumptions governing so much of what you do:
— Martin E.P. Seligman
I'm trying to untangle the truth from the false from assumptions from the postulations but run-on sentences are twisting around my throat.
— Tahereh Mafi
THE THIRD AGREEMENT Don't Make Assumptions
— Miguel Ruiz
Breakthroughs come when people learn how to take the time to stop and examine their assumptions.
— Peter M. Senge
Forming culture is not a one-time event.
— Matt Chandler
It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey.
— Steve Maraboli
New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them.
— Alister E. McGrath
Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.
— Farshad Asl
The games we play are lessons we learn. He assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
— Terry Pratchett
Don't build roadblocks out of assumptions.
— Lorii Myers
Beware of economists who hide assumptions.
— Anat R. Admati
Do you really understand all this army stuff?
It helps not to be too bright, sir. — M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
It helps not to be too bright, sir. — M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
— Abraham H. Maslow
The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.
— Brandon Sanderson
It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.
— Idries Shah
Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: Learn from socialism, but don't join it.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best.
— Miguel Ruiz
We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.
— David Platt