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Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late. -- Bryan Davis
Assumptions are dangerous things. -- Agatha Christie
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. -- Henry Winkler
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong. -- Albert Einstein
Assumptions are what we don't know we are making -- Douglas Adams
Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making. -- Douglas Adams
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. -- John Sayles
Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better. -- David Baldacci
People, please remember that I choose my words very carefully. Assumptions are your enemy. -- Chris Kluwe
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
A lion of truth never assumes anything without validity. Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother. -- Suzy Kassem
Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble. -- Daniel Handler
The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to anotherâ?¦.No. It wasnâ??t dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact. -- Lynn Margulis
Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
Differences challenge assumptions. -- Anne Wilson Schaef
You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. -- Denis Waitley
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. -- William Lyon Phelps
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions. -- Noam Chomsky
There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting. -- Craig Stevens
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue. -- Julian Baggini
When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality. -- Emily Levine
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. -- George Bernard Shaw
Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in. -- Alan Alda
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in. -- Alan Alda
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. -- David Brin
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions. -- Alonzo Church
The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free. -- Rupert Sheldrake
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations. -- Henry Petroski
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. -- John W. Gardner
Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation. -- John Spratt
Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves. -- Kavita Ramdas
I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque. -- Eddie Vedder
Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment. -- Noam Chomsky
People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce. -- Jeremy Hunt
We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality. -- Ann Richards
It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different. -- Christopher Meloni
Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Don't make assumptions. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Test everything, including assumptions -- Jeffrey Zeldman
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions -- Cornel West
I challenge assumptions about women. -- Hillary Clinton
Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous. -- Peter Drucker
Progress is a set of assumptions. -- Edward Albee
I welcome questions. I hate assumptions. -- Red Haircrow
Beware of economists who hide assumptions. -- Anat R. Admati
Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions. -- Frank Herbert
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds. -- Terence McKenna
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. -- Marshall McLuhan
Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions. -- Geoff Tate
The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable. -- Paul Broca
Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions. -- Laura Busche
Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre. -- Milton Friedman
Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions. -- Laurie R. King
You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues. -- Adam Clayton
I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions. -- Rex Stout
The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts. -- Russell L. Ackoff
Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions. -- Gautam Adani
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. -- Will Durant
Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world. -- Aaron Huey
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. -- Salman Rushdie
I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions. -- Steven Rodney McQueen
It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind. -- Sebastian Thrun
The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. -- William of Ockham
One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions. -- Simon Pegg
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions. -- Idries Shah
The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making. -- Douglas Adams
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. -- Albert Low
To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions. -- Albert Mohler
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves. -- Adrienne Rich
Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone. -- Jennifer Young
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity. -- Edward de Bono
Relationship Principle 6 Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential. -- Sherry Argov
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. -- Tony Hoare
We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed. -- Carl Hart
The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why? -- Kenichi Ohmae
Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions. -- Brian Tracy
Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next. -- David Brin
But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence. -- C.C. Hunter
Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. -- Eric Temple Bell
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. -- Mencius
[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement. -- Jonah Goldberg
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. -- Eric Temple Bell
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. -- Wassily Leontief
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. -- Kim Gordon
Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded. -- Michele Jennae
Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions -- Sherif A. El-Mawardy
Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. -- Scott Adams
There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart. -- Meg Ryan
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure -- Ambrose Bierce
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. -- Michael Mandelbaum
...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. -- Milton Friedman
It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey. -- Steve Maraboli
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. -- Marshall McLuhan
All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline. -- Douglas Groothuis
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 Angel Ruiz
My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all. -- Elizabeth Lesser
We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions. -- George Barna
The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works. -- Thomas J. Sergiovanni
Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere. -- Greg Gutfeld
Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them. -- Daniel Kahneman
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources. -- Andrew Solomon
History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. -- Ken Burns
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. -- Alan Lightman
That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge. -- Simon Pegg
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. -- John Seely Brown
Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO. -- Timothy Keller
Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities. -- Evelyn Glennie
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. -- George Santayana
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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