Famous quotes containing the word assume:
“Its frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself.... It seems unfair. You cant assume the responsibility for everything you door dont do.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (19081986)
“To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thingand a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes goodbut to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.”
—William Pepperell Montague (18421910)
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)