Presumption Quotes

115 Presumption quotes by 101 unique authors

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 it’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
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people… — Robert Creeley
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. — Robert Breault
Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the nature… — Russell Kirk
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at… — William Gaddis
The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it. — Chuck Missler
...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the same time has… — Soren Kierkegaard
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption. — Confucius
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption… — Pope Gregory VII
Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge… — Harry Browne
No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men are… — Charles James Fox

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