Quotes tagged ‘Assumptions’

“First thing you'll learn is that nothing is what it seems. Ignore your assumptions. Don't trust anything. What you see, what you hear, what people tell you, what you think you remember.”

— Laeta Kalogridis, Quellcrist Falconer, Renée Elise Goldsberry, imdb.com

“Joe Waters: Wait a minute! Are you making assumptions about me to him? Cliff Waters: Joe, please! Joe Waters: No! If that's the kind of friend you want, if that's the kind of person you want to be, you're no brother of mine.”

— David Lloyd, Joe Waters, Robert Walden, imdb.com

“Sheldon: Anyway, the housekeeper in the faculty residence didn’t speak any English. When I finally managed to convince her I was sick, she said, 'Möchtest du eine Darmspülung?' Penny: What does that mean? Sheldon: Based on what happened next, I assume it means, 'Would you like an enema?'”

— Stephen Engel, Chuck Lorre, Lee Aronsohn, Sheldon Cooper, Jim Parsons, imdb.com

“Glenn Quagmire: That's a military fighter jet! He's here to shoot us down! Peter Griffin: Or she.”

— Joseph Lee, Peter Griffin, Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com

“I love what my brown skin looks like and what it represents. And there are many times I’m fully unaware of my skin. The perfect example is I’m talking to somebody, and they would look at me and say, ‘So how do they do that in India?’ I say, ‘I’m not sure. I’m from Pakistan. But I can Google it for y…”

— Habiba Nosheen, allure.com

“So many assume. So little know.”

— Norm Kelly, twitter.com

“It’s sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.”

— Sebastian Thrun, eighteeneight.com

“I think a lot of times we don’t pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.”

— Amy Adams, chron.com

“Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us int believing that we have the right to make assumptions about people's identities and project those assumptions onto their genders and bodies.”

— Janet Mock, amazon.com

“There’s no sense in going through life presuming awful things about people you do not know.”

— Joseph Fink, amazon.com

“If you open your mind up to giving someone a second chance, you might realize that you had this person all wrong.”

— Susan Krauss Whitbourne, psychologytoday.com

“In order to get his or her way, a manipulative person may sneakily — and conveniently — assume you agree with everything they say.”

— Carolyn Steber, bustle.com

“What you see with your eyes does not tell every detail of every story.”

— Priscilla Anais Vazquez, thoughtcatalog.com

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“It is always better to ask questions than to make an assumption, because assumptions set us up for suffering.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

“With online dating, we judge based on objective criteria (height, sports nut), rather than subjective (attraction), which you can't judge until you meet the person. When you read other people's profiles, don't make assumptions or rule them out because of one thing they wrote. You can fall in love wi…”

— Erin Meanley, glamour.com

“I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave me a relaxed manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com