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I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence. — Peter Slipper

Presumption is a leading cause of death. — Laird Barron

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. — Stanley Hauerwas

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire. — Heraclitus

But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men. — William Shakespeare

His sense of "justice" had been hard tempered by his sense of law enforcement; a perfect way to reverse the presumption of innocence. — Kenneth Eade

The presumption of divine intervention in human affairs violates my sense of an orderly and comprehensible universe. — Millard Kaufman

Luckily, I have ESP. Extra sensory presumption. It means I have this unbelievable talent for guessing and occasionally, I get it right. — L.J. Hayward

We no longer harbor the naive presumption that things work out for the best. — Mary T. Stimming

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption. — Samuel Richardson

Ignorance is the mother of presumption — Marie De Gournay

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little. — George Crabbe

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past. — Thomas Hobbes

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist. — Henry Miller

Eternity, Presumption
The instant I perceive
That you who were Existence
Yourself forgot to live — Emily Dickinson

A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

Being assured of our salvation is no arrogant stoutness. It is faith. It is not presumption. Rather it is confidence in God's promise. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Adam named every creature in the garden. And we've been paying for his presumption ever since. — Marty Rubin

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents. — Herbert Spencer

The presumption of innocent until proven guilty has been overshadowed by the presumption of guilty until proven wealthy — Frank Vetro

It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. — Emily Dickinson

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. — David Hume

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved. — Emily Post

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. — DMX

It was as if God had decreed this characterless engagement of brainless forces as his answer to the human presumption. — E.L. Doctorow

To accept something on mere presumption and, likewise, to fail to investigate it may cover over, blind, and lead astray. — Alfarabi

[T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning; and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361). — Richard Baxter

Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant. — Michel De Montaigne

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

I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world. — Stanley Hauerwas

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal. — Samuel Johnson

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. — James Thurber

Presumption is the opposite of Prevention — Bhavik Sarkhedi

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. — Golda Meir

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

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The next presumption is always valid: one's knowledge corresponds to
one's intellectual capacity. — Eraldo Banovac

They do not therefore apprehend God as he offers himself, bbut imagine him as they have fashioned him in their own presumption. — John Calvin

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

Other sink," I said, smiling at his presumption that he would get drawers at my place, too, and his scowl when he couldn't find them. — Sylvia Day

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness. — Martin Luther

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. — Hesiod

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption. — Anna Seward

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

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence. — Barney Frank

Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption? — Peter Kreeft

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

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead. — Dennis Lehane

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. — Bertrand Russell

The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it. — Chuck Missler

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

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption. — Confucius

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

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being. — Cynthia Ozick

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

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. — Louis XI Of France

Pastor McFucking Bride this ... Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him! — S.B. Redd

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

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

To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim
— Emily Dickinson

I didn't say I understood her. I wouldn't have the presumption to say that of any woman. — Charles Dickens

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. — S.B. Redd

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. — Robert Brault

She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night. — Thomm Quackenbush

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself. — Herodotus

Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us. — Andrew Lansley

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

Always been, and the safety of the Republic would be assured. This was a presumption buried deep in the soul of every Roman. — Tom Holland

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. — Michel De Montaigne

In a word, the Negro youth starts out with the presumption against him. — Booker T. Washington