Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. — Samuel Johnson 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
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
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
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
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
I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he… — Peter Carey 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
