Quotes About Presumption

my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.

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

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

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.

what cruel and bloodthirsty beasts are smug presumption, vain-glory, pride, and carelessness

The third occurrence of the words4 fits our own and the last times, where the lukewarm, the presumptuous, and those easily offended abound, whom of all people it is most difficult to move forward to better things.

Our faith in Christ does not free us from works but from false opinions concerning works, that is, from the foolish presumption that justification is acquired by works.

The law, which even in those hard days — popularly known as the good old times, by the way — was supposed to regard an accused person as innocent until his or her guilt was duly established, did not afford the suspected individual much opportunity of proving that innocence. The prisoner's counsel was not allowed to plead for his client.

Moreover, had he begun to presume invulnerability to the eyes of the serpent? To believe that he knew the facts of a situation—quantity over essence—could precipitate reasoning and strategies that might not be within the plans of God for his own mission. Always— always—weakness had been his strength. Unknowingness. Simplicity. Trust.

They will presume that you are like so many others, an academic infected with just the right amount of subtle ambition and a mild disaffection for orthodoxy—without falling outright into heresy. A

This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs, generally leads to trouble. The unwarranted sense of security sooner or later results in a rude awakening. When people start believing that progress is inevitable and life easy, they may quickly lose courage and determination in the face of the first signs of adversity.

This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs, generally leads to trouble.

This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs, generally leads to trouble. The unwarranted sense of security sooner or later results in a rude awakening. When people start believing that progress is inevitable and life easy, they may quickly lose courage and determination in the face of the first signs of adversity. As they realize that what they had believed in is not entirely

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

The day's dashed hopes had temporarily reduced her to the childish presumption that someone she loved should, in return for that love, be able to read her mind.

Worst of all, the regulatory agencies may presume anyone they charge to be guilty unless he proves his innocence, and he has but limited standing and scope to appeal the agency's decision to a real court, effectively "making the commission's decisions on fact final and conclusive," the ABA objected.

The accused were considered guilty unless proven innocent.

The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

Nuestra generación lo ve todo claramente, le asombran los errores, le produce risa la insensatez de sus antepasados, sin ver que esos anales están escritos con fuego celestial, que en ellos clama cada letra, que un dedo imperioso le señala por doquier a ella, a la generación actual. Pero nuestra generación se ríe y, dominada por la presunción y el orgullo, comienza una serie de nuevos errores, de los que más tarde también se reirán nuestros descendientes.

In the air the Pentagon would then, went the presumption, turn orange and vibrate until all evil emissions had fled this levitation. At that point the war in Vietnam would end.

There is another future quite different from it, which is the future we imagine, prompted by fears or hopes or lazy presumptions of regularity. Such projected futures are easy enough to construct in imagination, but ontologically they are shallow; they make little claim on our belief — even though they often market themselves at astonishingly high prices!

La littérature est un théâtre à ciel ouvert qui permet de transformer les êtres les plus simples en héros universels, loin des parterres présomptueux. Conrad, Le Voyageur de l'inquiétude

Lord, I still move and live in a dim world, feeling Thee near by faith, but I will not presume. I would hide in Thee in security and patience until I am as Thou wouldst have me to be.

If there is nothing, then, but silence, is it not presumptuous of me to speak? And yet, if there had been anything more than silence, would I have felt the need to speak in the first place?