Presumption Quotes

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

— Ann Coulter

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

— Benjamin Franklin

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

— Barbara Tuchman

I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence.

— Lori Lightfoot

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Presumption is the opposite of Prevention”

— Bhavik Sarkhedi

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

— George Crabbe

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

— Herodotus

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

— Oliver Sacks

“Brennan writes, allowing for those exceptions violates the presumption of innocence twice:”

— Radley Balko

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.”

— John Muir

“A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

— William Shakespeare

“We no longer harbor the naive presumption that things work out for the best.”

— Mary T. Stimming

“The presumption of divine intervention in human affairs violates my sense of an orderly and comprehensible universe.”

— Millard Kaufman

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

— David Hume

Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. ... The…

— Richard M. Weaver

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption…

— Deborah Sampson

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption…

— Deborah Sampson

My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that…

— Max Barry

“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

I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a…

— Esther Dyson

Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to…

— Samuel Johnson

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that…

— Mitch Daniels

Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once…

— Galileo Galilei

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,…

— Florence Nightingale

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

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

There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more…

— Andrew Solomon

Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature,…

— Roy Moore

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as…

— William Penn

As for the ethics, law, and politics relationship, there has always been a tension for me as I try to keep them…

— John Kleinig

“People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by…

— Martha Manning

In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially…

— Hilaire Belloc

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and…

— Anonymous

“Could Stephen have met men on equal terms, she would always have chosen them as her companions; she preferred them because of…

— Radclyffe Hall

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For…

— David Hume

All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then…

— Sebastian Faulks

In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows…

— James Hollis