Never Assume Quotes

• Never assume the obvious is true.

  William Safire

  Truth, Obviousness, Peer Pressure

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• Never ASSUME, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS of U and ME.

  Felix Unger

  Assuming, Ass

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• Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people

  LeCrae

  People, Upset, Finding Yourself

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• Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.

  Brian Tracy

  Assuming, Asks

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• One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don't assume.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Believe, Hard Work, Thinking

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• Never assume that you have attained truth. Don't make any claim to knowledge. Form no conclusion or evaluation concerning truth. The minute you do, your downfall is assured. Whenever you imagine you know something, you cease being open to the living exploration. You have closed a door and cut off the oxygen to the breathing truth.

  Mooji

  Cutting, Doors, Oxygen

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• We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

  George Henry Lewes

  Wisdom, Assuming, Assumption

  George Henry Lewes (1859). “The physiology of common life”

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• People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

  Robert Greene

  Ideas, People, Desire

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.146, Profile Books

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• You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Assuming, Should, Knows

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• Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.

  Ralph Marston

  Stay Strong, Life Changing, Way

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• Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

  David McCullough

  Responsibility, People, Assuming

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  Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

  Henry Winkler

  Love, Funny, Relationship

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• Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.

  Blake Crouch

  Halloween, Assuming, Knows

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• Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.

  Robert Greene

  Pride, Worry, People

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.140, Profile Books

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• Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

  Dave Barry

  Guy, Literature, Assuming

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys”, p.85, Ballantine Books

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• Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.

  Richelle Mead

  Love, Truth, Loving Someone

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• Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Strong, Lying, People

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• Never say 'I could have done that,' because you didn't.

  Karim Rashid

  Inspirational, Trying, Done

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• Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

  Geoffrey Madan

  Mean, Silence, Luck

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• Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.

  Rich Mullins

  Jesus, Cost, Assuming

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

  Henry James

  Heart, Knowing, Novelists

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.74, University of Chicago Press

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• Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Assuming, Fellows

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

  Willie Mays

  Guy, Other Guys, Assuming

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• I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take -- one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Responsibility, Thinking, Self

  "CNN'S Amanpour", www.cnn.com. December 24, 2012.

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• I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

  Gustav Mahler

  Assuming, Disguise

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