Assumptions Quotes - Page 3

The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct.

Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.

God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

We live our lives supposing things are as they appear to be when that is almost never the case.

Assuming less does not make you naive, it makes you a better listener.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realize that society is changing until the change has already come.

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.

I had just heard tales that the Valkyrie were large warriors, akin to Amazons.”“If you’re the sole survivor of an army attacked by us, are you going to say we had our asses handed to us by petite, nubile females, or by she-monsters who can bench Buicks?

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

Washington not only fit the bill physically, he was also almost perfect psychologically, so comfortable with his superiority that he felt no need to explain himself. (As a young man during the French and Indian war he had been more outspoken, but he learned from experience to allow his sheer presence to speak for itself.) While less confident men blathered on, he remained silent, thereby making himself a vessel into which admirers for their fondest convictions, becoming a kind of receptacle for diverse aspirations that magically came together in one man.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection

Conventional wisdom won't provide continual growth.