assumptions quotes

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.