presumptuous Quotes

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

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.

I don't mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.

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

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.

I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves.

A person who seems to have all of the answers, usually isn't listening.

How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.

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.