If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness. — Martin Luther 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
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in… — Domenico Dolce Copy Share Image
I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces… — Robert Schumann 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
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Such presumption," said Aunt Laura, meaning for a Dix to aspire to a Murray. "It wasn't because of his presumption I packed… — L.M. Montgomery 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
I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have… — Alan Dershowitz 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 birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. — DMX Copy Share Image
I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it. — Chuck Missler 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
“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 presumption of innocent until proven guilty has been overshadowed by the presumption of guilty until proven wealthy” — Frank Vetro 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
But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men. — William Shakespeare 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
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
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.” — Pere La Combe Copy Share Image
“Presumption prevents the breakthrough to self-knowledge that would otherwise open the door to new levels of leadership.” — Will Mancini Copy Share Image
For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
