Quotes of: Presumption Keyword

She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.

Artificial Gods

A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.

Stanley Hauerwas

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.

Stanley Hauerwas

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'

Mitch Daniels

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

Cynthia Ozick

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

James Thurber

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

Walter Kaufmann

The basic principle of health, well-being, and the action of healing is the presumption of prior perfection rather than the motivating problem. We must be established in the presumption that Truth is always already the case, and therefore, the perfec...

The Eating Gorilla Comes in Peace: The Transcendental Principle of Life Applied to Diet and the Regenerative Discipline of True Health

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

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

Wicked Becomes You

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

Peter Slipper

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 provi...

Tan Le

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

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.

James L. Buckley

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.

Judith Butler

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

Alonzo Church

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.

Algernon Sidney

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.

A Drink Before the War

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Robert Schumann

I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which wouldn't necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it's pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presum...

Nick Denton