Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're…

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as…

— Emily Dickinson

“ Much Madness Is Divinest Sense Much Madness is divinest Sense — To a discerning Eye — Much Sense — the starkest Madness —…

— Emily Dickinson

“Belief, in this sense, seems to me to be assent to a proposition which we think so overwhelmingly probable that there is a psychological…

— C.S. Lewis

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

— Blaise Pascal

“May I inquire what is the point?” he snapped impatiently. “Indeed you may,” Lucinda said, thinking madly for some way to prod him into…

— Judith McNaught

I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

— Al Franken

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples…

— Stephen Jay Gould

When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

— Anonymous

Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go…

— Ernest Sosa

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense…

— Thomas Jefferson

“To fail to experience gratitude when walking through the corridors of the Metropolitan Museum, when listening to the music of Bach or Beethoven, when…

— William F. Buckley

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms…

— Chester A. Arthur

I find myself frequently placed where I dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me; for there is danger…

— Ellen G. White