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You surpise me, because people nearly always force you to ask, don't they?
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I'm not much into speculation.
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An assumption is something you don't know you're making." DOUGLAS ADAMS
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Assume makes an ass out of you and me - p.239
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Only fools assume.
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You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.
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I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.
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Unconfirmed suspicion tends, over time, to become willful, fallacious, and prey to the vicissitudes of mood - it acquires all the qualities of common superstition - and
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The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.
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I think I think, therefore I think I probably am.
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Declare the past,
diagnose the present,
foretell the future.
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We must regard all laws or theories as hypothetical or conjectural; that is, as guesses.
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It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.
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Less reasoning when be too sure.
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I think. I sense. I wonder.
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Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.
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I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.
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Guess?" Vizzini cried. "I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.
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One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another
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And if you insist on continuing to make assumptions about my character, I'll advise you only this: assume you will always be wrong.
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It is not really wise to make too many assumptions when you don't yet have all the facts to do so. You may believe your conclusions are logical, while they may turn out to be totally wrong.
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To justify any such inference.
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You have a case, Holmes?" I remarked. "The faculty of deduction is certainly contagious, Watson," he answered. "It has enabled you to probe my secret. Yes, I have a case. After a month of trivialities and stagnation the wheels move once more.
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I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.
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Speculation can be worth while only when a few are taking advantage of the stupidity of the many.6
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How do I know," she said at last, "that you are what you seem to be?"
"You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you.
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The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.
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I love to doubt as well as know.
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Never assume the obvious is true.
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I had a hunch. Officially, scientists don't work on hunches. We work on hypotheses and observations and plenty of evidence. Hunches don't get you research funding, tenure at your university, or access to the world's largest telescopes. But a hunch was all I had.
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If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.
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Speculation is not knowledge.
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I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.
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How do you know, that you know?
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Arrows of insight have to be winged by the feathers of speculation.
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Confrontation is better than speculations.
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distraught. It seems he claims
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The throbbing habits of assumption tinted with malice lead to decisions and actions that drum out faith, trust and respect towards a crashing carelessness and uselessness. Be effective by discarding sneaking suspicions.
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When you make any assumption,
you are preparing room for error.
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I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.
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And once I am there, I shall seek out Watson, if he still lives - and I fancy he does. It is irrational, I acknowledge, and yet I am certain that I would know, somehow, had Watson passed beyond the veil.
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Be what you would seem to be.
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You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption
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With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
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Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption
and watch the world play its part
relative to to its fulfillment.
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We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.
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Presumptions macerate mind.
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Let us assume you've made your point.
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See the value of imagination. It is the one quality which Inspector Gregory lacks. We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. Let us proceed.
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I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
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Here we begin frank speculation. And since we are speculating, we'll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption.
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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]
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Then, how do you know?" "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and careless servant girl?" "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago.
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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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one ponders. And when one ponders, one creates theories - hypotheses, to explain the world.
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One or two particulars may suggest hints of enquiry, and they do well who take those hints; but if they turn them into conclusions, and make them presently general rules, they are forward indeed, but it is only to impose on themselves by propositions assumed for truths without sufficient warrant.
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I imagine, therefore I am.
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You have suspicions, nevertheless?" "Yes, monseigneur; but these suspicions appeared to be disagreeable to Monsieur the Commissary, and I no longer have them.
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Don't make assumptions.
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Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin.
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Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
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I have instincts.
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Before you assume...read all the facts. Before you judge...try to understand why and most important
before you speak...always think.
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Understate and over-prove.
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I write to discover what I think
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Don't be committed to the guess, be committed to the process of guessing.
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Suspect all of your favorite sentences.
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I think, therefore I doubt.
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I am inclined to think
" said I. "I should do so," Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I believe that I am one of the most long-suffering of mortals; but I'll admit that I was annoyed at the sardonic interruption. "Really, Holmes," said I severely, "you are a little trying at times.
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The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.
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Alternate the theories you entertain about all things.
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The most obvious conclusions are the ones I try to avoid
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We assume of others what we know of ourselves
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suspected in the
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Assume nothing,'" he said. The first chapter of the Tactics. "If we figure everyone might be a murderer, we're less likely to be disappointed.
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Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.
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Deduce is absurd and dangerous
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Doubt is the only appropriate response for human beings.
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I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.
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Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.
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In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
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Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
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Drawing conclusions is up to the jury, that is, the readers. My only job is to be talented, that is, to know how to distinguish important testimony from unimportant, to place my characters in the proper light and speak their language.
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Science of Deduction
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Doubting pleases me no less than knowing
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We are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.
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Stop assuming the worst. Give others the benefit of the doubt.
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Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.
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Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.
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With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances,
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Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.
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How can you test whether something's an assumption? Try this: switch things around, and check how bananas everybody goes.
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Do you imagine
" Mr. Lorry had begun, when Miss Pross took him up short with:
"Never imagine anything. Have no imagination at all."
"I stand corrected; do you suppose
you go so far as to suppose, sometimes?"
"Now and then," said Miss Pross.
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Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.
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Survival ... is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
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Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.
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A woman must guard her mysteries." "Perhaps true," he said, "if her mysteries are few in number. But I feel certain that a man could study you at his leisure and never find himself short on the most . . . pleasant brands of speculation.
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I think therefore I seem to be.
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He wondered what assumptions she was forming, what picture was emerging from this scant constellation of his life.