Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will… — J.C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“The presumption of innocent until proven guilty has been overshadowed by the presumption of guilty until proven wealthy” — Frank Vetro Copy Share Image
“I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it. — Chuck Missler 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“the presumption is that the government, with rare exception, will not know anything that law-abiding citizens are doing. That is why we… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It is evil to justify killing (unborn babies) by the happy outcome of eternity for the one killed. This same justification could… — John Piper 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
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
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
Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“Pastor McFucking Bride this . . . Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him!” — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The presumption of divine intervention in human affairs violates my sense of an orderly and comprehensible universe.” — Millard Kaufman Copy Share Image
“We no longer harbor the naive presumption that things work out for the best.” — Mary T. Stimming Copy Share Image
The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“Brennan writes, allowing for those exceptions violates the presumption of innocence twice:” — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.” — John Muir Copy Share Image
When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence. — Peter Slipper Copy Share Image
I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“In fact, I once imagined you loved me a little bit, if you'll excuse the presumption.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image