Presumption Quotes

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.

Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

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.

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 uttering.

...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.

I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy".

The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (1794)]

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society. I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment.

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky, ' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob.

Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall, then we think like ancestors who thought there's abyss at the edge of flat earth.

His attentive treatment of her had nothing to do with the presumption that she was weak, and everything to do with the conviction that she was valuable.

It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will not cry for mercy.

Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.

And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you’ve pulled. It don’t matter if you got seven doubles in your damn hand.