If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption. — Confucius Copy Share Image
There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't. — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
“Repeat something enough and folks will start to believe it. Mr. Mount had always taken the position that the presumption of innocence… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“His attentive treatment of her had nothing to do with the presumption that she was weak, and everything to do with the… — Angela N. Blount Copy Share Image
To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to… — Tan Le Copy Share Image
Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been… — John Locke Copy Share Image
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in… — Domenico Dolce Copy Share Image
You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“By some need to appear intellectual, non-thinkers will instantly and without question subscribe to the opinions of those they feel other people… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
