Avoiding Assumptions Quotes

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.

Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.

It is always better to ask then to make an assumption.

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Do not jump the gun because of gossip.

Making assumptions taught me a lot as a producer, because it's something I never do now.

Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don't assume.

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

Don't make assumptions.

You shouldn't say, 'Well, we cannot go there,' before we even had the conversation.

I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they are all the same. You don't stereotype people and generalize people, everyone's different.

For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions

I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.

Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people.

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives