Assent Quotes

57 Assent quotes by 52 unique authors

When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes… — Epictetus
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 may… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most… — Asa Gray
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would… — William Ames
Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'. — John William Strutt
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. — Willa Cather
ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This… — Ambrose Bierce
The thought of being a creator, of engendering, of shaping is nothing without the continuous great confirmation and embodiment in the world, nothing without the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. — Nigel Dennis
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found? — Marcus Aurelius
One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How,… — William Wordsworth
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of… — Charles Caleb Colton
I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent. — Al Franken
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. — Mahatma Gandhi
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might… — Stephen Jay Gould
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. — Aldous Huxley
not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of… — Thomas Jefferson
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All,… — Emily Dickinson
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma. — Abraham Lincoln

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