Assent Quotes
57 Assent quotes by 52 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.
— John William Strutt
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"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
— Willa Cather
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
— Al Franken
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
— Aldous Huxley
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not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All,…
— Emily Dickinson
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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
Who Wrote These Assent Quotes
52 authors contributed a total of 57 Assent Quotes, led by these top contributors: