#presume

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#being #faultless #faults #good #good qualities

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#comes #difference #durable #electricity #expensive

What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#bothers #everyone #everything #extremely #family

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#comedy #i #much #practical #presume

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#know #man #mankind #presume #proper

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#disorder #disrupted #expects #order #prepared

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product. ↗

— John Irving

#finished product #love #more #much #must

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#great #i #presume #think

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#economic #economic benefits #economic growth #globalization #growth

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous