Presumption Quotes

“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 world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.”
― John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf

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

[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]”
― Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters

“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.”
― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip

“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 [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

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

“Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“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.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.”
― Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

“AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.”
― Albert Camus

“To Roland's relief, Jean de Joinville came to his aid. "Sire, this good knight wants only to preserve your life. Let us all ride together against the Egyptians."
"If I ride against them alone, God will protect me," said Louis.
A new figure pushed into the circle. He wore the white surcoat and red cross of a Templar over his mail. With a leap of his heart, Roland recognized Guido Bruchesi.
Guido looked at him but did not acknowledge him. He went directly to the King.
He spoke quietly but firmly. "Sire, what you have just said is presumption."
"I do not see how that could be, brother Templar." But Louis took his foot out of the stirrup as Roland watched with growing hope. You can always catch Louis's attention with a religious argument, Roland thought, even on the battlefield.
"Sire," said Guido, "Satan tempted our Seigneur Jesus, telling Him that if He cast Himself down from the mountaintop, angels would lift him up." Guido cast a sidelong look at Amalric. "You, Sire, are being tempted to ride alone against the whole Egyptian army, expecting God's protection. You are demanding a miracle. That is presumption."
Louis was silent for a moment. "Perhaps you are right."
Roland let out a long breath.”
― Robert Shea, All Things Are Lights

“As a gentleman- assuming you still have some pretensions in that direction- of honor- again, perhaps presumptuous, but still supposing your passing acquaintance with the concept- it is your duty- I won't even trouble to speculate here, but remain naively hopeful- to protect those under your care.”
― Connie Brockway, So Enchanting

“Presumption is a leading cause of death.”
― Laird Barron, X's For Eyes

“By some need to appear intellectual, non-thinkers will instantly and without question subscribe to the opinions of those they feel other people think are educated.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“We have presumed based not on our own but on others’ deaths that we are mortal.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“[...] non è effetto alcuna in natura, per minimo che e' sia, all'intera cognizion del quale possano arrivare i piú specolativi ingegni. Questa cosí vana prosunzione d'intendere il tutto non può aver principio da altro che dal non avere inteso mai nulla, perché, quando altri avesse esperimentato una volta sola a intender perfettamente una sola cosa ed avesse gustato veramente come è fatto il sapere, conoscerebbe come dell'infinità dell'altre conclusioni niuna ne intende.”
― Galileo Galilei

“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

“Could Stephen have met men on equal terms, she would always have chosen them as her companions; she preferred them because of their blunt, open outlook, and with men she had much in common—sport for instance. But men found her too clever if she ventured to expand, and too dull if she suddenly subsided into shyness. In addition to this there was something about her that antagonized slightly, an unconscious presumption. Shy though she might be, they sensed this presumption; it annoyed them, it made them feel on the defensive. She was handsome but much too large and unyielding both in body and mind, and they liked clinging women. They were oak-trees, preferring the feminine ivy. It might cling rather close, it might finally strangle, it frequently did, and yet they preferred it, and this being so, they resented Stephen, suspecting something of the acorn about her.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“[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, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“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.”
― J.C. Ryle, A Call to Prayer

“To be preoccupied with getting theological knowledge as an end to itself, to approach Bible study with no higher motive than a desire to know all the answers, is the direct route to a state of self-satisfied deception.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“If anyone at my funeral says 'it's what he would have wanted', I'll kick the lid off my coffin and throttle them. Or, if I've been cremated, I'll flip the lid off the urn and become a dust storm in their eyes. Only you know what you truly want. Anything else is presumption skewed through personal agendas.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Procrastination is driven by a presumption of regret.”
― Rayvern White

“Goofy was on his way to the valley to propose his girlfriend when he realized he didn’t bring the roses.
Middle of the road he can’t see anything except a house with a rose garden on top of the hill.
He thought he can get few from there.
He pressed the bell on the main gate, while waiting, he started thinking: What if no one is at the house? Should I steal the rose?
What if they demand money for the roses? Ok, better for me, AED 10 is fine, but 20 is also ok, but wait! What if they try manipulating my situation by asking me a lot extra.
What if they refuse? Should I inform them how difficult it was to convince her to marry me?
What if they say they don’t care about my story? How can they not care about my story?
Finally the door opened & the host asked: How can I help you?
Goofy walked off but not before saying: you know what? I don’t require roses from someone who doesn’t care about my love story.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“Normally, I observe that the worse the quality of one's existence (as assessed by the subject himself), the greater the propensity to offer others pearls of wisdom about how life is and how it should be lived and, on average, to expect them to be collected.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“Weder Seele noch Gehirn der Menschen haben in historischen Zeiten erweislich zugenommen, die Fähigkeiten jedenfalls waren längst komplett! Daher ist unsere Präsumption, im Zeitalter des sittlichen Fortschritts zu leben, höchst lächerlich”
― Jacob Burckhardt, Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen (Großdruck)

“And plus, to take a short cut and to judge someone based on PRESUMPTION, instead of concrete facts, is epistemologically flawed! She believes that Timothy could still be an enemy, and that presumption is valid–I mean, I do admit that it is not impossible for Timothy to pretend to support tolerance and Just-ification, or for Timothy to support Just-ification only for the tolerance of Capacianists but not for the tolerance of Reformists, or for Timothy to do other dreaded things that can be conceived by human creativity, but although it is perfectly human to make presumptions (I mean, scientists make hypotheses before collecting the data), she should not limit her beliefs to the presumption, just like how scientists shouldn’t limit their beliefs to the hypothesis. She needs the concrete facts the same way scientists need the data to see the truth!”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“I often hear someone say, "Other people don't like me because I tell the truth."
No, that is not why others do not like them.
Others do not like them because they say what they think and have the pretension that it is the truth.”
― Luigina Sgarro