Quotes by Assuming One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him. Michael Scheuer assumingcommunityintellectual I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at. Michael Moore telephonesemailassuming Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime. Michelle Alexander dramaticassumingpeople The truth is a lot easier to see when you stop assuming you already have it. Mike Norton truth-isassumingreligious I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem. Mira Sorvino assumingproblempeople A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of vacuity behind them. Misha Collins assumingtvsguy ...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge. Mohammed Arkoun islamassumingrisk People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay. Moby wealthassumingpeople You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down. Monica Ali assuminglife-isrunning What we assume, what we have never clearly thought out, controls us. Morton T. Kelsey assuming I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money. Muhammad Yunus economicmaking-moneyassuming To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die. Muriel Barbery richassumingfall We don't have to go around as the Protestant reformation did, or as the socialist revolution did, and execute each other as soon as we are successful - assuming we'll ever be successful. Murray Bookchin assumingrevolutionsuccessful A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created. Napoleon Hill assumingstatesmind We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable. Neal A. Maxwell assumptionassumingjustice Never stop doubting , never stop questioning, never ever assume you have all the answers. Having all the answers kills the question itself, renders it lifeless.....an d you too. Keep looking, keep seeking. Never, ever find it all. Because when you find it all, you deny that there is more. And there is never not more. Neale Donald Walsch assumingdoubtanswers It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best. Neil Gaiman assumingwork-outtrouble The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science. Nelly Ben Hayoun surrealscientistassuming Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept. Neale Donald Walsch judgmentalspiritualityassuming Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy. Niccolo Machiavelli incompetenceconspiracyassuming«1213141516171819202122»
