Famous quotes containing the word assume:
“Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I shall assume that your silence gives consent.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)