The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try… — Colin Tudge Copy Share Image
When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The story wafts across the Atlantic, where it's picked up with glee by Catholic progressives and horror by some Catholic conservatives -… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid… — Johannes Rau Copy Share Image
Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word… — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious — not in the systematically mysterious way… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
