Assumption Quotes

Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e.g., Scientists are smart; smart people do not make mistakes; therefore, scientists do not make mistakes).

If we speak poorly about that which we do well, people will assume we perform poorly!

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.