Quotes About Presumption

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

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.

It was as if God had decreed this characterless engagement of brainless forces as his answer to the human presumption.

To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of Government. It would be a vain presumption in statesmen to think they can do it. The people maintain them, and not they the people. It is in the power of Government to prevent much evil; it can do very little positive good in this, or perhaps in any thing else. [Thoughts and Details on Scarcity]

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.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

I do believe that any sort of electromagnetic energy that can be measured beyond the moment of death is, by the definition of energy, eternal. But I cop to the fact that calling it a 'soul' and presuming it sustains our consciousness in any form is, to put it kindly, a leap.

Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It's the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence.

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).

God is not bound by the human presumption that we are the center of everything, and creation did not actually demand or need Jesus (or us, for that matter) to confer additional sacredness upon it.

It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.

There is, after all, a real limit to how much ordinary people can learn and know, and to demand that each and every one of them contribute 'strong opinions' to the great debates of the nation cannot, surely, be wise. It is, in any case, absurd that anyone should presume to define a person's 'dignity' in these terms.

Trials rarely found men not guilty. The general view was that if a man were innocent he would not have got into trouble in the first place.

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

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.

Let none presumeTo wear an undeserved dignity.O! that estates, degrees, and officesWere not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear honorWere purchas'd by the merit of the wearer.

Don't presume you know what's best for him, Karin. I've been seeing to his needs for over a century." She glowered at the ceiling. "All I'm suggesting is that he doesn't need a modification for my sake. I think he's just fine the way he is." "You're wrong." You pompous machine.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

Con razón presumía Narsel de que los barcos de Agshar no se atrevían a atacar a los suyos!

There's nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but takes it upon himself to tell the world what's good for it.

Presuming that a nonspeaking child has nothing to say is like presuming that an adult without a car has nowhere to go.

Guardaos de confundir la fe con la presunción. La verdadera fe se aviene con la humildad; el que la posee pone su confianza en Dios más que en sí mismo, porque sabe que, simple instrumento de la voluntad de Dios, nada puede sin El, y por esto los buenos Espíritus vienen en su ayuda. La presunción más bien es orgullo que fe, y el orgullo es siempre castigado, más o menos tarde, por los desengaños y las desgracias que sufre.

Sharing presumes and creates equality.