1 Pause and remember – Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jennifer Young, Assumptions, Awareness, Pain, 0 Jennifer Young Copy
2 My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jennifer Echols, Assumptions, Expectations, Social dynamics, 0 Jennifer Echols Author Copy
3 Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Harold Acton, Assumptions, Critical thinking, Reflection, 0 Harold Acton Copy
4 Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gautam Adani, Assumptions, Economic, Opinion, 0 Gautam Adani Copy
5 We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Miguel Angel Ruiz, Assumptions, Courage, Questions, 0 Miguel Angel Ruiz Author · Mexico Copy
6 The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Miguel Angel Ruiz, Assumptions, Beliefs, Truth, 0 Miguel Angel Ruiz Author · Mexico Copy
7 Don’t make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Miguel Angel Ruiz, Assumptions, Communication, Courage, 0 Miguel Angel Ruiz Author · Mexico Copy
8 Just because the kid’s cute, doesn’t mean you’re not the father. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Will Smith, Appearance, Assumptions, 0 Will Smith Actor · USA Copy
9 The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Will Durant, Assumptions, Critical thinking, Rationality, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA Copy
10 Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Laurie R. King, Assumptions, Carelessness, Possibilities, 0 Laurie R. King Author · USA Copy
11 If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be. Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Sheryl Sandberg, Assumptions, Gender, Leadership, 0 Sheryl Sandberg Business executive Copy
12 Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense. Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Samuel Richardson, Assumptions, Intelligence, Scholarship, 0 Samuel Richardson Novelist · England Copy
13 Your reasoning is excellent, it’s only your basic assumptions that are wrong. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Ashleigh Brilliant, Assumptions, Critique, Reasoning, 0 Ashleigh Brilliant Author · England Copy
14 Dating is tricky these days. Everyone plays by different dating rules, so don’t assume anything. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Andrew W.K., Assumptions, Uncertainty, Variety, 0 Andrew W.K. Singer-songwriter · USA Copy
15 The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Albert Low, Assumptions, Simplicity, 0 Albert Low Author Copy
16 Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Ahdaf Soueif, Assumptions, Communication, Misunderstanding, 0 Ahdaf Soueif Novelist Copy
17 Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Adrienne Rich, Assumptions, Knowledge, Self-awareness, 0 Adrienne Rich Poet · USA Copy
18 Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Bronstein, Assumptions, Correctness, Strategy, 0 David Bronstein Chess Player · Ukraine Copy
19 Beware of assumptions that seem “obvious” in one decade. They may become quaint in the next. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, David Brin, Assumptions, Change, Time, 0 David Brin Scientist · USA Copy
20 One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Simon Pegg, Assumptions, Irritation, Misunderstanding, 0 Simon Pegg Actor · England Copy
21 Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions. Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Brian Tracy, Assumptions, Courage, Failure, 0 Brian Tracy Entrepreneur · Canada Copy
22 Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don’t take much for granted. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Noam Chomsky, Assumptions, Science, Skepticism, 0 Noam Chomsky Linguist · USA Copy
23 We shouldn’t assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing. Author, December 27, 2023January 1, 2025, Barack Obama, Assumptions, Government, Integrity, 0 Barack Obama 44th U.S. President · USA Copy
24 The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cullen Hightower, Assumptions, Critical thinking, Reflection, 0 Cullen Hightower Author Copy
25 I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I’ve done it my whole life. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cody Horn, Acting, Assumptions, Stories, 0 Cody Horn Actress Copy
I believe that the majority of people in Europe want to demonstrate solidarity with the refugees. Martin Schulz Politician · Germany
Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone. Franco Nero Actor
I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves. Che Guevara Revolutionary · Argentina
