Presumptuous Quotes

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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and… — Rowan Atkinson
Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on… — Joe Biden
There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something… — Joe Biden
A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is… — Carlos Castaneda
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be… — David Hume
I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years… — Lady Gaga
I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my… — Tea Leoni
I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be.… — Harlan Ellison
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a… — Madeleine L'Engle
We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are… — Blaise Pascal
Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in… — Demosthenes
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft
I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let… — Faith Ringgold
Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan. — George Canning
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be… — Frances Wright
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man. — Pliny the Elder
It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard — Jude Morgan
It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises. — Stanley Schmidt
A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get… — Annie Leibovitz

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