Famous quotes containing the word assume:
“Men especially need to communicate. To tell people years after the fact that they were the priority is the cowards way. If men can muster the courage to fire an employee, tell off a boss, or assume financial risk, they can dig deep and say the three little words their wives and children need to hear.”
—Fred G. Gosman (20th century)
“The first mistake of Art is to assume that its serious.”
—Lester Bangs (19481982)
“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)