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title: "279 Assertion Quotes by 231 authors"
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> [A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-bare-assertion-is-not-necessarily-the-naked-truth/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evelyn-waugh/self-sufficiency-at-home-self-assertion-abroad/)

[Evelyn Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evelyn-waugh/)

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> [“The circumstances would always be stronger than his assertion. And”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/the-circumstances-would-always-be-stronger-than-his-assertion-and/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [Style is effectiveness of assertion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/style-is-effectiveness-of-assertion/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-faraday/i-could-trust-a-fact-and-always-cross-question-an-assertion/)

[Michael Faraday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-faraday/)

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> [Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/effectiveness-of-assertion-is-the-alpha-and-omega-of-style/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/we-can-refute-assertions-but-who-can-refute-silence/)

[Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/)

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> [Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-stepanov/complexity-assertions-have-to-be-part-of-the-interface/)

[Alexander Stepanov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-stepanov/)

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> [Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/poetry-is-not-an-assertion-of-truth-but-the-making-of-that-truth-more/)

[T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/)

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> [I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-radcliffe/i-never-trust-people-s-assertions-i-always-judge-of-them-by-their/)

[Ann Radcliffe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-radcliffe/)

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> [This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-corn/this-is-how-proofiness-works-the-assertion-is-more-important-than-the/)

[David Corn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-corn/)

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> [One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/randolph-bourne/one-keeps-healthy-in-wartime-by-a-vigorous-assertion-of-values-in/)

[Randolph Bourne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/randolph-bourne/)

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> [Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/patriotism-has-become-a-mere-national-self-assertion-a-sentimentality/)

[H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/)

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> [Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/self-sacrifice-not-self-assertion-is-the-law-of-the-highest-universe/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-carnap/let-us-be-cautious-in-making-assertions-and-critical-in-examining/)

[Rudolf Carnap](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-carnap/)

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> [It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessye-norman/it-is-still-more-likely-that-a-woman-s-power-would-be-seen-as/)

[Jessye Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessye-norman/)

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> [Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/letitia-elizabeth-landon/of-all-false-assertions-that-ever-went-into-the-world-under-the/)

[Letitia Elizabeth Landon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/letitia-elizabeth-landon/)

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> [Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/nowhere-nor-in-anything-except-in-the-assertion-of-the-church-can-we/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/the-opinion-of-the-great-body-of-the-reading-public-is-very/)

[Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/)

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> [That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/that-sense-of-a-life-in-natural-objects-which-in-most-poetry-is-but-a/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

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> [There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-thompson-woolley/there-is-perhaps-no-field-aspiring-to-be-scientific-where-flagrant/)

[Helen Thompson Woolley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-thompson-woolley/)

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> [Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-wright/be-not-afraid-in-admitting-a-creator-refuse-not-to-examine-his/)

[Frances Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-wright/)

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> [I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-maddow/i-think-a-lot-of-people-of-my-generation-are-discomfited-by-the/)

[Rachel Maddow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-maddow/)

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> [Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/those-who-know-that-the-consensus-of-many-centuries-has-sanctioned/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

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> [Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-w-wood/both-kant-and-fichte-thought-of-traditions-of-revealed-religion-as/)

[Allen W. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-w-wood/)

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> [Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-di-filippo/certainly-the-highest-posthumous-praise-that-can-be-conferred-upon/)

[Paul Di Filippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-di-filippo/)

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> [I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-butler/i-never-did-like-the-assertion-of-the-innate-inferiority-or-women-or/)

[Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-butler/)

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> [Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-cahill/throughout-the-world-half-of-all-children-go-to-bed-hungry-each-night/)

[Thomas Cahill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-cahill/)

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> [If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bolton/if-a-prosecutor-in-the-hague-decides-that-the-u-s-has-not-followed/)

[John Bolton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-bolton/)

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> [While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-hoover/while-i-can-make-no-claim-for-having-introduced-the-term-rugged/)

[Herbert Hoover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-hoover/)

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> [Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-crichton/science-is-nothing-more-than-a-method-of-inquiry-the-method-says-an/)

[Michael Crichton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-crichton/)

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> [Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-behe/molecular-evolution-is-not-based-on-scientific-authority-there-are/)

[Michael Behe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-behe/)

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> [There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-robert-oppenheimer/there-must-be-no-barriers-to-freedom-of-inquiry-there-is-no-place-for-2/)

[J. Robert Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-robert-oppenheimer/)

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> [I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity… But in order to try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-fielding/i-know-not-whether-it-would-be-too-bold-an-assertion-to-say-that/)

[Sarah Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-fielding/)

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> [As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-huxley/as-i-have-already-urged-the-practice-of-that-which-is-ethically-best/)

[Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-huxley/)

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> [Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-deming/manliness-has-been-defined-as-assertion-of-the-self-womanliness-has/)

[Barbara Deming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-deming/)

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> [“Knowledge as a past fact, as something dead and done with—knowledge by the time it gets into encyclopaedias and text-books—does consist of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/knowledge-as-a-past-fact-as-something-dead-and-done-with-knowledge-by/)

[R. G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-g-collingwood/)

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> [No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-bovard/no-knock-police-raids-destroy-americans-right-to-privacy-and-safety/)

[James Bovard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-bovard/)

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> [All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/all-our-thoughts-and-concepts-are-called-up-by-sense-experiences-and/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-heidegger/within-certain-limits-terminology-is-always-arbitrary-but-the/)

[Martin Heidegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-heidegger/)

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## Top authors on Assertion

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bertrand-russell-17477.jpg) Bertrand Russell 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/assertion/bertrand-russell/)

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                        "text": "Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or calculations. Since no one knows molecular evolution by direct experience, and since there is no authority on which to base claims of knowledge, it can truly be said that . . . the assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.",
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                        "text": "Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.",
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                        "text": "“Knowledge as a past fact, as something dead and done with—knowledge by the time it gets into encyclopaedias and text-books—does consist of assertion, and those who treat it as an affair of encyclopaedias and text-books may be forgiven for thinking that it is assertion and nothing else. But those who look upon it as an affair of discovery and exploration have never fallen into that error. People who are acquainted with knowledge at first hand have always known that assertions are only answers to questions. So Plato described true knowledge as ‘dialectic’, the interplay of question and answer in the soul’s dialogue with itself; so Bacon pointed out once for all that the scientist’s real work was to interrogate nature, to put her, if need be, to the torture as a reluctant witness; so Kant mildly remarked that the test of an intelligent man was to know what questions to ask, and the same truth has lately dawned on the astonished gaze of the pragmatists. Questioning is the cutting edge of knowledge, assertion is the dead weight behind the edge that gives it driving force”",
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                        "text": "No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.",
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                        "text": "All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.",
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                        "text": "“Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention of mine; it only gives expression to the understanding of the phenomenon of truth, as the Greeks already understood it in a pre-scientific as well as philosophical understanding, even if not in every respect in an originally explicit way. Plato already says explicitly that the function of logos, of assertion, is deloun, making plain, or as Aristotle says more exactly with regard to the Greek expression of truth: aletheuein. Lanthanein means to be concealed: a- is the privative, so that a-letheuein is equivalent to: to pluck something out of its concealment, to make manifest or reveal. For the Greeks truth means: to take out of concealment, uncovering, unveiling.”",
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