Sayings About Making Assumptions

#1. The problem would not exist if I asked beforehand. Hence, it is vital to ask honest questions (even if it sounds "stupid") rather than making assumptions. Everybody makes mistakes; the good news is that everything can be fixed.

Anna Agoncillo

#2. Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.

Mallory Ortberg

#3. You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.

Tony Horwitz

#4. But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.

C.C. Hunter

#5. I'm being careful with here, Harlow told me, apparently irritated by something I hadn't even had the time to say yet. She was making assumptions about my no-fun-at-all-ness. They were good assumptions.

Karen Joy Fowler

#6. When you speak openly and honestly, you won't have to make assumptions. The day you stop making assumptions, you will communicate cleanly and clearly, and achieve impeccability with your word.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#7. The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real.

Miguel Ruiz

#8. Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#9. The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#10. 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

#11. Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

Simon Pegg

#13. How would your life be different if ... You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day ... You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.

Steve Maraboli

#14. Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

Amanda Palmer

#15. All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#16. I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But ... can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats!

Scott Lynch

#17. Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

Douglas Adams

#18. 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

#19. The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

Douglas Adams

#20. Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.

Charles Kingsley

#21. You have my word.

Anonymous

#22. Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

Thomas Browne

#23. Assumptions are what we don't know we are making

Douglas Adams

#24. I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.

Portia De Rossi

#25. If we marvel at God's law, our core essence delights in keeping it.

Glenda Mathes

#26. Making negative assumptions based on a person's weight is never healthy. Overweight or thin, it sends the same damaging message: Your body does not conform.

Melissa Milne

#27. Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.

Jennifer Young

#28. A mathematician is always asking, "What assumptions are you making? And are they justified?

Jordan Ellenberg

#29. In life, you can be unhappy, or you can change things. And even if there are things you can't change, you can often change your mind-set and question assumptions that are making life less goof than it could be.

Laura Vanderkam

#30. Oh."
"And by this," said Liru, "I hope that you mean, 'Sorry for making stupid assumptions and not asking your help for a mutual friend."
"Well, isn't that what 'Oh' translates to in Fenn?

Jonathan Renshaw

#31. Your imagination is tricking you into making negative assumptions about people based on past experience. Your imagination is running the show, and the score is coming imagination one, you zero.

Nicholas Boothman

#32. You will make a perfectly rational mistake: You will assume that sooner or later the paradigm you are presently practicing (which has been mostly successful) will solve all the rest of your problems.

Joel Barker