Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually is. The subject doesn’t matter: we’re right about politics, other people, our memories; you name it. We mistake what we believe for the true facts.
Of course, we can’t be right about everything all the time. Everyone makes mistakes or misremembers some things. But we still want to feel right all the time, and ideally get other people to reinforce that feeling. Hence, we channel inordinate amounts of energy to proving to others — or ourselves — that we’re right. When this happens, we’re less concerned with outcomes and more concerned with protecting our egos.

The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real.

Most people go through life assuming that they’re right … and that people who don’t see things their way are wrong.

That which makes us believe so easily that others have defects is that we all so easily believe what we wish.

Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

our behavior is affected by our assumptions or our perceived truths. We make decisions based on what we think we know

5426. We are apt to believe what we wish for.

Most of us believe in order to feel secure, in order to make our individual lives seem valuable and meaningful.

It is very interesting how the human mind works. We have the need to justify everything, to explain and understand everything, in order to feel safe. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe. This is why we make assumptions…We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions…We have agreed that it is not safe to ask questions; we have agreed that if people love us, they should know what we want or how we feel. When we believe something, we assume we are right about it to the point that we will destroy relationships in order to defend our position.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

This is important because our behavior is affected by our assumptions or our perceived truths. We make decisions based on what we think we know.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

We may delude ourselves, as others have done before us, that our way of looking at things is the only right way, leading to truth.