Presumption Quotes
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Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.
Martin Luther -
There is this presumption, in those who feel destined for art and above all literature: we act as if we had received an investiture, but in fact no one has invested us with anything, it is we who have authorized ourselves to be authors.
Elena Ferrante
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Sometimes concern is the foot someone jams in the door so you can’t close it against condescension, presumption, invasiveness, and, at times, outright abuse.
Hanne Blank -
A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.
Tony Abbott -
In a society with a long history of discrimination, there should be a presumption that many laws with a discriminatory impact likely were motivated by a discriminatory purpose.
Erwin Chemerinsky -
The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
Herbert Spencer -
I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.
Esther Dyson -
It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.
Hazrat Inayat Khan