Top 218 Presumption Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Ignorance is the mother of presumption

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

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

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.

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

It is well known that obedience is the chief among the initiatory virtues, for first it displaces presumption and then it engenders humility within us. Thus it becomes, for those who willingly embrace it, a door leading to the love of God? Thus humility should be the first concern of those who are fighting against the presumption of the devil, for as we advance it will be a sure guide to all the paths of virtue.

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

I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

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

To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.

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

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.

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

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

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

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

Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

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

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.

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long before the commencement of any investigation or official proceeding.

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!

The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.

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

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence.

'Playboy' operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way - his. And that permission flourished in the psyches of all kinds of men.

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

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

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

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

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

Historically, there is a presumption that the legitimate police powers of the states are not to be pre-empted by federal law unless Congress has made that purpose clear.

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

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.

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.

I think the presumption is, for some reason, anybody who comes from the business or the corporate world is corrupt.

The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

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

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

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

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

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

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

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.

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

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

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

There is a presumption of innocence in American law that means that you cannot consider making someone guilty until all the evidence is in the the procedures are completed.

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

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