“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ... — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional… — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Even at legal brothels, sex workers have very little power and control over their workplace. They might have power with their customers… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
These algorithms, which I'll call public relevance algorithms, are-by the very same mathematical procedures-producing and certifying knowledge. The algorithmic assessment of information,… — Tarleton Gillespie Copy Share Image
Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub;… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened - if we take into consideration that this… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
“And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you’ve pulled. It don’t matter if you got… — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
If you start with the presumptions that liberals do, that corporations are evil and it all descends from that and that government… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and… — Penny Pritzker Copy Share Image
For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
There are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“. . . I would learn to discern and distinguish the difference between presumption and confession, between those who see what the… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
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