Assert Quotes

257 quotes by 221 authors

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself. — Albert Camus
Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite… — Aristotle
... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between the… — David Hume
It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert. — Nathaniel Branden
Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life. — Kenny Smith
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. — Josiah Strong
Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those… — Emanuel Lasker
Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free… — Jonathan Granoff
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it. — Richard Wagner
I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue… — Patrick J. Kennedy
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate. — Richard Rohr
We have our hands, we have our brains, we have the challenge all around us, and we have within (from whatever source) the will to… — Robert A. Heinlein
The job of a good ally is not to save anybody but rather to help create the conditions under which people can assert and grow… — Rinku Sen
There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless… — Leslie Fiedler
I do hereby assert and declare that in four years from the date hereof, every sectarian and religious denomination in the United States shall be… — Martin Harris
Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female.… — Carol P. Christ
Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private… — Murray Rothbard
EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action… — Eliphas Levi
The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well… — Marianne Williamson

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