Presumption Quotes · Page 2

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Lori Lightfoot

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

— Barbara Tuchman

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Ann Coulter

“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Ignorance is the mother of presumption

— Marie de Gournay

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

— Herodotus

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

— James Thurber

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

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

— Confucius

If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now.

— Byron Katie

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

— Samuel Johnson

Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.

— Jennifer Young

The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

— Barack Obama

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

— Cynthia Ozick

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

We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization…

— Billy Childish

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if…

— Bob Considine

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

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

The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long…

— William Barr

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but…

— Edmund Burke

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except…

— Tom Stoppard

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

For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also…

— Trevor Paglen

I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and…

— Penny Pritzker

There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line……

— Barbara Kingsolver

When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as…

— Reza Aslan

Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty…

— Harry Browne

During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load…

— Adam Smith

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

— Anonymous

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.

— Anonymous

Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

— Henry James

I think the presumption is, for some reason, anybody who comes from the business or the corporate world is corrupt.

— Mark Esper

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous…

— Hesiod

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

— Vittorio Alfieri

“Presumption prevents the breakthrough to self-knowledge that would otherwise open the door to new levels of leadership.”

— Will Mancini

“It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.”

— Pere La Combe