Presumptuous Quotes - Page 3

• Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

  George Canning

  Men, Mars, Creation

  'The Progress of Man' (1799) l. 55

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• And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous. I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious.

  David Hume

  Strong, Pain, Philosophy

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.306

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• I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago

  Lady Gaga

  Years, Goal, Sound

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• When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a work of Christian art. But to look at a work of art and then to make a judgment as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous. It is something we cannot know in any conclusive way. We can know only if it speaks within our own hearts, and leads us to living more deeply with Christ in God.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Christian, Art, Book

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.41, Convergent Books

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• We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Vanity, People

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let them read something, that doesn't change, that as I have said it, you know, so that's the way I feel about the viewer, the viewer has a mind of their own and eyes of their own and they're going to see it their way, I just hope they look.

  Faith Ringgold

  Eye, People, Mind

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• Your eyes have turned as black as a Crow’s,” she blurted out. He didn’t even blink over her bizarre comment. “Not this time, Christina,” he said in a furious whisper. “Compliments won’t get me off balance again, my little temptress. I swear to God, if you ever again dismiss me so casually, I’m going to––” “Oh, it wasn’t a compliment,” Christina interrupted, letting him see her irritation. “How presumptuous of you to think it was. The Crow is our enemy.

  Julie Garwood

  Eye, Thinking, Swear To God

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• 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.

  Joe Biden

  Thinking, Long, Respect Me

  "Biden's Brief". Interview with Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2008.

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• It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

  Vidal Sassoon

  People, Giving, Advice

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• We are also very presumptuous to negate the possibility that an illness may be a gift. It's a neutral experience is what I'm trying to say. It should be viewed in some regard as no different than any other experience.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Trying, Different

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• "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.

  Paul Theroux

  Confused, Communication, Ideas

  "Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings". Book by Paul Theroux, 2000.

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• 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.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Real, Discovery, Progress

  Henry St John's letter to Alexander Pope, as quoted in "The Work of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Selected from the Best Authorities. In Four Volumes. Volume III", 1841.

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• How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Achievement, Challenges, Growing

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• I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.

  Moby

  Speech, Kind, Absurd

  "Moby talks about music's future" by Ben Rayner, www.thestar.com. March 9, 2008.

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• Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.

  Brendan Benson

  Stupid, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's become such a part of younger people's daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous. People feel like it's OK, for example, to email you with some weird personal criticism they have.

  Ted Leo

  Thinking, People, Criticism

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

  Max Lucado

  Grace, Rejects

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.665, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Wise, Hope, Promise

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• I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? he was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach; presumptuous in him, and dangerous to the masters.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Children, Lying, Father

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2015). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: An Autobiographical Account of an Escaped Slave and Abolitionist”, p.18, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

  Yann Martel

  Thinking, Movie Love, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• They believe the bible is the exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, hu huh? "I think what God meant to say..."

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Thinking, Word Of God

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• A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Wicked, Principles

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• ...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Thinking, World And Love

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• 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.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Choices, Atheism

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• 'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, and hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, and answer her afflicted neighbours' prayer... Soon as her fleets appear their terrors cease.

  Joseph Addison

  Kings, Prayer, War

  Joseph Addison, “A Letter From Italy”

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