32 Quotes About Presumption

[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).

[...] non è effetto alcuna in natura, per minimo che e' sia, all'intera cognizion del quale possano arrivare i piú specolativi ingegni. Questa cosí vana prosunzione d'intendere il tutto non può aver principio da altro che dal non avere inteso mai nulla, perché, quando altri avesse esperimentato una volta sola a intender perfettamente una sola cosa ed avesse gustato veramente come è fatto il sapere, conoscerebbe come dell'infinità dell'altre conclusioni niuna ne intende.

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

His attentive treatment of her had nothing to do with the presumption that she was weak, and everything to do with the conviction that she was valuable.

It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will not cry for mercy.

We have presumed based not on our own but on others’ deaths that we are mortal.

Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.

Normally, I observe that the worse the quality of one's existence (as assessed by the subject himself), the greater the propensity to offer others pearls of wisdom about how life is and how it should be lived and, on average, to expect them to be collected.