Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others."
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Assumption
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Mark Parker
Business Executive
"Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around."
Adrienne Rich
Poet, Essayist, Feminist
"Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise."
Russell Brand
Comedian, Actor
"The bad-boy label is just an assumption."
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"I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted."
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"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."
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"The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions."
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"The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing."
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"Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions."
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"When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!"
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"All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility."
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"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something."
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"Don't make assumptions."
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"We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do"
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"You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized."
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"Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor."
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"The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making."
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"It is always better to ask then to make an assumption."
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"Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous."
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"There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so."
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"Assume a virtue if you have it not."
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"Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third."
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"Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you."
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"If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced."
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