Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes. — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened - if we take into consideration that this… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub;… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional… — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Even at legal brothels, sex workers have very little power and control over their workplace. They might have power with their customers… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
If you start with the presumptions that liberals do, that corporations are evil and it all descends from that and that government… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ... — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids… — Woodrow Wilson 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
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people,… — Adam Smith 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
What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring,… — Christiane Amanpour 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
“If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall, then we think like ancestors who thought… — Toba Beta 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
We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward,… — Barack Obama 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 photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his… — Primo Levi 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
Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that… — Stanley Hauerwas 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
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
“Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society. I see today the society presumes technology will have a different… — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
