Assumption Quotes

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

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.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions.

Common sense is not so common.

People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I believe education is much more important than we assume.

Everything is but what we think it.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.

Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

I don't engage in hypotheticals.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

I always try and distinguish between facts and opinions.

One of my optimistic prophecies is based on the assumption that machines could have the best algorithms in the universe, but it will never have purpose. And the problem for us to explain purpose to a machine is because we don't know what our purpose is. We have the purpose, but we still ... When we look at this global picture, a universal picture, to understand what is our purpose being here on this planet? We don't know.

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

You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.