Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Assumptions are dangerous things.
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says 'Morning, boys. How's the water?' And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water?'
A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.
Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.
I've been very fortunate. But rich? People make huge assumptions about the guys in Gn'R.
The heresy of heresies was common sense.
Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.
People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person. Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations. I was a pretty difficult teenager.
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made.
I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.
Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.
Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.
People have opinions but no knowledge.
