Quotes About Presumptions

#1. Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.

Levi Woodbury

#2. I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise - haven't you?

Scott Lynch

#3. For most people, the central questions of existence ultimately come down to transcendental ones: Why is there a universe at all? Why are we here?
Whatever presumptions one might bring to the question "Why?," if we understand the "how" better, "why" will come into sharper focus.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#4. We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

E.L. Doctorow

#5. Presumptions macerate mind.

Toba Beta

#6. I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel so weak there most be a mistake, and as I don't know what I mean with this, I am not going to say anything else

Romain Gary

#7. If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumptions, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

Tan Le

#10. What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.

Meredith Duran

#11. Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...

John Szarkowski

#12. Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

Henry James

#13. Principle II:;: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.

William Ernest Hocking

#14. One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

Richard Allen Epstein

#15. We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

Shane Claiborne

#16. Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Robert Creeley

#17. Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.

Tom Robbins

#18. When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield

Kate Bornstein

#19. To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.

J. Jack Halberstam

#20. Ever since I've been in Congress, various groups on the business side, those entities that are creating jobs out there, have felt that the Clean Air Act is really - that there are all sorts of presumptions in favor of the environmentalists.

Ed Whitfield

#21. A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.

Boris Gelfand

#22. If it's Truth we're after, we'll find that we cannot start with any assumptions or concepts whatsoever. Instead, we must approach the world with bare, naked attention, seeing it without any mental bias - without concepts, beliefs, preconceptions, presumptions, or expectations. (6)

Steve Hagen

#23. If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.

Henry James

#24. Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

Steven Spielberg

#25. They looked at her quizzically, came at her with assumptions, presumptions, what they believed was intimate knowledge of her. She felt unarmed, by comparison; disadvantaged.

Lorrie Moore

#26. Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order to be able to educate our children is most difficult.

Maria Montessori

#27. She smiled at me, her ancient face so lined only the sparkle of her eyes gave it away. "My dear, I can get lost from my bed to the toilet these days. I find presumptions to be a source of false confidence.

April White

#28. Author discussed what he calls the "narrative fallacy." This refers to our "limited ability" to look at a sequence of facts "without weaving an explanation into them.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#29. Every time you read into something you miss the soul, while searching for the motive.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. Problems don't actually exist. They're just the hallucinogenic effects of people being weirded out on what they think life is supposed to be.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#31. He was not what gentlemen usually thought a gentleman was.

David Halberstam

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