Top 297 Presume Quotes & Sayings

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.

What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

The success of 'X-Men' paved the way, I have to presume, for Sony to make Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man.'

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.

I wouldn't presume to be God's point of view.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Sometimes, with vocalese, I'm dealing with something, a great solo from the past, which is so iconic I can't presume to change it or mess with it.

You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.

Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts.

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.

Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

Acting was in my instincts, I presume.

I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.

Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct.

I would never presume to give anyone advice.

America does not presume to know what is best for everyone

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

I've been offered the role of Franklin Roosevelt, and I wouldn't presume to undertake it.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

We anathematize those who presume to teach or explain any other creed.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

When we presume that we are better than people who need structure and guidance, we lack one of the most crucial ingredients for change: humility.

We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

People presume just because you're a bigger bloke that you wouldn't be physically fit or up for the fight, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of 'that kind' of person.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.

Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.

Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.

My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.

There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.

I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

People often presume I'm from whatever country they're from. So Americans presume I'm American and the British presume I'm British. And they're surprised to discover I actually am Australian. And actually some Australians are surprised too.

Never presume yours is a better morality.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

My first warning is to my government officers to not presume citizens as thieves.

It's not fair, but it's not entirely wrong to presume that the more capable people will come from the better brand.