23 quotes found
“Never assume the obvious is true.”
“A lot of people, especially psychoanalysts, assume that happiness can only be found in a couple - but not all of us are made for a relationship.”
“Always assume your assumptions about others are wrong. Because often, they are”
“Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection”
“I know assuming is easy, and sometimes, reality does not go in the direction of the assumption, but at least, it gives us hope that things may go just right.”
“Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.”
“Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship.”
“Assuming that all unschooled people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm.”
“Assumption is the biggest human consumption.”
“Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.”
“It's wrong to anticipate evil.”
“Assumptions should never be the basis of any understanding.”
“The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement.”
“Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.”
“Th danger of exchanging the necessary insecurity of philosophical thought for the total explanation of an ideology and its [worldview], is not even so much the risk of falling for some usually vulg...”
“Ive always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event. Why would you ever think that?”
“Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).”
“A judgement results from some kind of consideration of the evidences available and is always better than an assumption!”
“People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.”
“Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm.”
