We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them.
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.
Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.
The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.
The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails. The Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears.
Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.
Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.
There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.
It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors.
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. . . Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures. " The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
Despair ruins some, presumption many.
There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having begun with the arrogant presumption of knowing about God all that one can, they reduce Him to manageable terms and confine Him to a tidy theological box, the dimensions of which conform to their predilections of what a god ought to be and do.
I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
