A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is a presumption of innocence in American law that means that you cannot consider making someone guilty until all the evidence… — Conor Lamb Copy Share Image
“If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall, then we think like ancestors who thought… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination.… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring,… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature,… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is basedon induction, or,… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society. I see today the society presumes technology will have a different… — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe.… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While not explicitly articulated in the Constitution, the presumption of innocence has, through Supreme Court opinions, become a fundamental tenet of our… — Dan Abrams Copy Share Image
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long… — William Barr Copy Share Image
There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if… — Bob Considine Copy Share Image
We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
