Jennifer Egan

That American confidence is more alive and well than it should be, to this day. But it's such a problem. There's a blindness to that confidence, a presumption that what's good for me is good for you. No! That's what teenagers think: the world revolves around them. As a nation, we've got to stop thinking that way. We're getting too old for that.

American Novelist

John Muir

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

American Environmentalist

Noam Chomsky

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

American Activist

Johann Lamont

There is a presumption made among nationalists that constitutional change is the answer to all the questions that are problematic in our communities, and my job is to talk about what is happening in the real world.

Scottish Politician

Mitch Daniels

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

American Politician

Margo Jefferson

In general, fashion is decorative, it's protective, it acknowledges that the world does involve conflict, and you might be attacked by assumptions, presumptions, and attitudes.

American Critic

Kayleigh McEnany

The American public recognizes truth versus assumption, presumptions, and the personal opinions of witnesses without firsthand knowledge.

American Public Servant

Benjamin Banneker

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

American Scientist

Stanley Hauerwas

I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.

American Theologian

Mark Esper

I think the presumption is, for some reason, anybody who comes from the business or the corporate world is corrupt.

Use 'presumption' when you believe something will likely happen without solid proof.

Likelihood and Assumption

'Presumption' suggests a strong belief, but remember, it's not a fact or guarantee.

Not a Certainty

In law, a 'presumption' means a principle is accepted as true until disproved.

Legal Foundation

The term 'rebuttable presumption' indicates it can be challenged with evidence.

Rebuttal Possible

'Presumption' can imply someone is overstepping social bounds with their behavior.

Perceived Arrogance

Using 'presumption' in this sense often conveys a negative judgment of someone's conduct.

Negative Connotation

'Presumption' here is a starting point or belief underlying a plan or action.

Basis for Action

'Presumption' should not be confused with 'prediction'; it's a supposition, not a forecast.

Presumption vs. Prediction

 education at a colored school my parents were humiliated every day of their lives when they saw those signs that said white and colored they weren't direction they were assaults and we haven't tried to address them we try to press on and now there is a presumption of dangerousness and guilt that follows black and brown people in this country it is the reason why kids are being

The urgent need for...

 but something to be thankful for, perhaps a gift from the boat. Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province. I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough now to know that, yes, the world does fall apart,

Tan Le: My immigration...

 a deep-seated presumption among Westerners that the whole world will decide to adopt private capitalism as the model of economic growth, liberal democracy, and will continue to prioritize political rights over economic rights. However, to many who live in the emerging markets,

Dambisa Moyo: Is China...

 someone who gets paid, and we tend to assume that it's those professionals who are going to be the ones to help us solve the really big, systemic design challenges that we face like climate change, urbanization and social inequality. That's our kind of working presumption.

Alastair Parvin:...

 and the architecture of digital technologies, as they interact, have produced the presumption that these activities are illegal. Because if copyright law at its core regulates something called copies, then in the digital world the one fact we can't escape

Laws that choke...

 you can let the project grow organically and have a life of its own. So what we did is we decided to take this plan and strip it away from all the numbers and all the ideas and presumptions and just go back to the base idea,

Haas&Hahn: How painting...

 reveals some truth behind the trickery. Visual effects are based on the principles of all assumption, things are as we know them; presumption, things will behave as we expect; and context in reality,

Don Levy: A cinematic...

 but it's closer to a petite unified theory of predicting the future. It's based on the presumption, the observation even, that all important technologies go through four stages in their life --

Chris Anderson (Wired):...

 some truth behind the trickery visual effects are based on the principles of all illusions assumption things are as we know them presumption things will behave as we

A cinematic journey...

 now President Carter calls an emergency meeting our presumption was that the United States policies would be better