When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence. — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Pastor McFucking Bride this . . . Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him!” — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.” — John Muir Copy Share Image
There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“Brennan writes, allowing for those exceptions violates the presumption of innocence twice:” — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
I would challenge the statement that my scientific instincts are any less rigorous than [Richard Dawkins]. The difference is that my presumption… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway.… — Scott Brown Copy Share Image
Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“We no longer harbor the naive presumption that things work out for the best.” — Mary T. Stimming Copy Share Image
“The presumption of divine intervention in human affairs violates my sense of an orderly and comprehensible universe.” — Millard Kaufman Copy Share Image
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.” — Pere La Combe Copy Share Image
“Presumption prevents the breakthrough to self-knowledge that would otherwise open the door to new levels of leadership.” — Will Mancini Copy Share Image