Presumption Quotes

115 Presumption quotes by 101 unique authors

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and… — Woodrow Wilson
Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and… — Aldous Huxley
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. — Hesiod
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself. — Herodotus
If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it, you are not… — Charles Spurgeon
We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have,… — E L Doctorow
Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order… — Maria Montessori
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity… — Thomas Paine
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our… — Albert Camus
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the… — Heinrich Heine
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon… — Edmund Burke
There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients. — Oliver Sacks
I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think… — Esther Dyson
I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence. — Peter Slipper
During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the… — Soren Kierkegaard
I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in… — Edmund Burke
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption. — Thomas Jefferson
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the… — Thomas Jefferson
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
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this… — Max Barry
Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves… — Thomas Aquinas
Despair ruins some, presumption many. — Benjamin Franklin
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as… — John Muir
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the… — Galileo Galilei
What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth… — Judith Martin

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