It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
"Connected" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. . . I don't doubt that instant communication has been good for business, even for the publishing business, but it has done nothing for literature, and might even have harmed it. In many ways connection has been disastrous. We have confused information (of which there is too much) with ideas (of which there are too few). I found out much more about the world and myself by being unconnected.
In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact, to have any. In regard to sex-love affairs, to marriage and family relations, to business, to politics, and to virtually everything else that is important in his life, he must try to discover what his god and his clergy would like him to do; and he must primarily do their bidding.
remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.
We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be a source of infinite satisfaction to them, individually, I shouldn't for one second be so presumptuous as to make a choice among the many thousands of recorded revelations of truth, accepting one at the expense of all the others: I might so easily choose wrong and get into eternal trouble. And you must admit that the selection is wide, and dangerous to the amateur.
It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.
The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men. . . but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.
There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.
