Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

(A middle-class child’s) parents didn’t just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

You’re going to listen to me, and for once you’re going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren’t there.

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

The author called us to re-examine assumptions bequeathed to us from Greece and Rome. Just as a bridge built by the Roman Empire might have held up tolerably for centuries under foot traffic but crumble...

You figured that the only way I’d be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

It makes Brooke feel strange in her stomach. It is like the feeling when she reads a book like the one about the man with the bomb, or thinks a sentence, just any old sentence...

Over time, I discovered that learning new things doesn’t always liberate you. Instead it makes you wonder if your pants are on backward or if the trees are holding the sky up – it makes...

Perhaps, if you weren’t so busy regarding my shortcomings, you’d find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be. I notice when the sky is blue. I smile down at children. I...

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of...

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.

It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

Two people don’t see same event as opportunity. When one see it a problem; other look to capitalize it for optimum benefit

It’s as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn’t – which, of course, is pretty often – she is surprised and affronted.

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there’s a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.

It wakes us right up.

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself...

Often she felt as though she had been picked up and turned about like a kaleidoscope, that all her complacent assumptions had been shaken up and reassembled in a different order

We all make assumptionsevery day. Some more important than others. Some more damagingthan others. And things, very often, are not at all what they seem.

The genius of cynicism is that it is a voice in your ear it does not usually hang around long enough to be interviewed. It is usually expressed in innuendos, passing remarks, moods, cartoons, hints,...

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition – and added in assumption / projection

[…] a familiar art historical narrative […] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. […] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition...

Don’t build roadblocks out of assumptions.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

Drop all those assumptions that success is built on success. Add a very little value to yourself and it will amaze you how you will see people appreciate that value!

When looking for evidence that something exists, it’s silly to start by assuming that it is impossible. Taking any assumptions into study is bad science.

Never judge a woman by her age.

Every rock-thrower needs something to stand on to have any accuracy or do any damage with the rocks.

Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.

Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics,...