Presume Quotes

159 quotes by 150 authors

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere… — William Bartram
Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions… — Ben Affleck
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. — Edmund Burke
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Doctor Livingstone, I presume? — Henry Morton Stanley
It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not… — Sun Tzu
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity… — Henry David Thoreau
Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to… — Miguel de Cervantes
Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments. — Richard Dawkins
When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action,… — Maya Angelou
"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in… — George W. Bush
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of… — Carl Linnaeus
Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume… — Cynthia Heimel
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner… — David Hume
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be… — Malcolm Muggeridge
To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. — Alexander Hamilton
I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here… — Barack Obama
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume to anticipate custom. — Marguerite Yourcenar
The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum… — Thomas Huxley
I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time… — David Hurn

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