First thing you'll learn is that nothing is what it seems. Ignore your assumptions. Don't trust anything. What you see, what you hear, what people tell you, what you think you remember.
— Laeta Kalogridis, Quellcrist Falconer, Renée Elise Goldsberry, imdb.com
Joe Waters: Wait a minute! Are you making assumptions about me to him? Cliff Waters: Joe, please! Joe Waters: No! If that's the kind of friend you want, if that's the kind of person you want to be, you're no brother of mine.
Sheldon: Anyway, the housekeeper in the faculty residence didn’t speak any English. When I finally managed to convince her I was sick, she said, 'Möchtest du eine Darmspülung?' Penny: What does that mean? Sheldon: Based on what happened next, I assume it means, 'Would you like an enema?'
— Stephen Engel, Chuck Lorre, Lee Aronsohn, Sheldon Cooper, Jim Parsons, imdb.com
Glenn Quagmire: That's a military fighter jet! He's here to shoot us down! Peter Griffin: Or she.
I love what my brown skin looks like and what it represents. And there are many times I’m fully unaware of my skin. The perfect example is I’m talking to somebody, and they would look at me and say, ‘So how do they do that in India?’ I say, ‘I’m not sure. I’m from Pakistan. But I can Google it for y…
So many assume. So little know.
It’s sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.
I think a lot of times we don’t pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us int believing that we have the right to make assumptions about people's identities and project those assumptions onto their genders and bodies.
There’s no sense in going through life presuming awful things about people you do not know.
If you open your mind up to giving someone a second chance, you might realize that you had this person all wrong.
In order to get his or her way, a manipulative person may sneakily — and conveniently — assume you agree with everything they say.
What you see with your eyes does not tell every detail of every story.
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
It is always better to ask questions than to make an assumption, because assumptions set us up for suffering.
With online dating, we judge based on objective criteria (height, sports nut), rather than subjective (attraction), which you can't judge until you meet the person. When you read other people's profiles, don't make assumptions or rule them out because of one thing they wrote. You can fall in love wi…
I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave me a relaxed manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.