Assert Quotes

257 quotes by 221 authors

I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows… — Criss Jami
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an additional tactic in… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert… — George Steiner
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. — Charles Horton Cooley
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that… — Charles Darwin
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause. — Jonathan Edwards
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality… — Hermann Hesse
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be… — Thomas Jefferson
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I… — D. H. Lawrence
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had… — T.E. Lawrence
You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn't do anything wrong, you can't then… — Rush Limbaugh
The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form. — Gustav Mahler
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on… — Maimonides
The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today's world… — Simon Mainwaring
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the… — Jon Meacham
It's dangerous to assert oneself. — Jeanne Moreau
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. — Tom G. Palmer
Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that… — Feisal Abdul Rauf

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