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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
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, PresumptionThe instant I perceive
That you who were Existence
Yourself forgot to live — Emily Dickinson
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
It was as if God had decreed this characterless engagement of brainless forces as his answer to the human presumption.
— E.L. Doctorow
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[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
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
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 toone's intellectual capacity. — Eraldo Banovac
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
— Barbara Tuchman
Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.
— Martin Luther
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
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
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
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
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