Assertion Quotes
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It's a choice, it's a bold move - disassembling the Box - and one that requires assertion, but the rewards are remarkable!!
— Heidi Reagan
At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being
— Frederick Hertz
There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.
— Swami Vivekananda
The assertion that "somebody else will not let me do anything" should always be suspected as a cover-up for inertia.
— Peter F. Drucker
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
— T. S. Eliot
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
— Eric Hoffer
Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.
— Swami Vivekananda
This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom
— Swami Vivekananda
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
— Aristotle.
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something ... was somewhere and took a picture.
— Allan Sekula
The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to another
— Leo Tolstoy
If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.
— Robert Crandall
I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fermat's assertion that if n is any whole number and p any prime, then n multiplied by itself p times minus n is divisible by p.
— Sylvia Nasar
The assertion that there are an infinite number of homosexualities is a political statement rather than an observable fact.
— Rictor Norton
Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
— George Bernard Shaw
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
— William James
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.
— Vilfredo Pareto
It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.
— Felix Alba-Juez
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
— Erich Maria Remarque
This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.
— David Corn
Self-assertion more often than not is vulgar, but a live and vulgar dog who keeps on barking is better than a dead lion, however dignified.
— Louis MacNeice
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
— Samuel Johnson
Shakespeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
— Samuel Johnson
I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.
— Michael Faraday
What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.
— John Prendergast
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!
— Adolf Hitler
The constant assertion of masculinity is always the most obvious tell of a fake. You do not constantly assert what you know you have.
— Matt Bondurant
Marsilius of Padua, whose Defensor Pacis in 1324 was a forthright assertion of the supremacy of the state.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.
— James Huneker
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
— H.G.Wells
To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
— James Anthony Froude
The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.
— D.W. Winnicott
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.
— Bertrand Russell
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.
— John Ralston Saul
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
— Oscar Wilde
Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom ... Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.
— Swami Vivekananda
Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?
— Sigmund Freud
It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.
— Jessye Norman
Negative self assertions are like weeds in the garden of your life. Cleanse your garden of any such weeds.
— Sanchita Pandey
Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface
— Alexander Stepanov
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
— George Dennison Prentice
Capote's rejoinder to the Kerouac assertion that he never needed to edit his writing: "That's not writing .That's typing.
— Joseph Cavano
We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
— Charles Dickens
The evangelical assertion of the new Word was not intended to make man fit into the world, but to verify his isolation
— John Lamb Lash
Wisdom ... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
— Carol Gilligan
The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.
— Dennis Lindley
Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.
— Oli Anderson
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
— Henry Flynt
Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.
— Joost Meerloo
Style is effectiveness of assertion.
— George Bernard Shaw
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.
— Max Heindel
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
One keeps healthy in wartime ... by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
— Randolph Bourne
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
...the assertion that you live in a lie while I live in the truth is the most cruel thing one person can say to another...
— Leo Tolstoy
If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.
— Francis Schaeffer
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.
— Bertrand Russell
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
Never argue; repeat your assertion.
— Robert Owen
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.
— Aldous Huxley
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
— Akira Kurosawa
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
— George Bernard Shaw
Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas ... for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton