Presumption Quotes

115 Presumption quotes by 101 unique authors

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not… — Stanley Hauerwas
A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or… — Susan Sontag
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in… — Mitch Daniels
Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running. — Benjamin Franklin
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely… — Arthur Schopenhauer
All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had… — Sebastian Faulks
We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil… — Primo Levi
But if itâ€™s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that… — Utah Phillips
We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this… — Billy Childish
Ignorance is the mother of presumption — Marie de Gournay
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
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. — Benjamin Banneker
Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional fluctuations are a… — Tarek Saab
A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive… — Boris Gelfand
It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for.… — Tan Le
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved… — Deborah Sampson
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.… — Lord Acton
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all… — Shane Claiborne
You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been… — Robert Schumann
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence. — Barney Frank

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