Assertion Quotes

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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth; from self-assertion, therefore… — Laozi
I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to… — Kirk Cameron
Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority. — Oscar Wilde
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity… — Oscar Wilde
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part. — Randolph Bourne
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! — Adolf Hitler
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish… — Ayn Rand
Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what… — George Santayana
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo
Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once… — Charles Spurgeon
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used… — Herbert Hoover
I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than… — Norbert Wiener
I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion. — Michael Faraday
The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could… — Niels Bohr
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength. — Carol Gilligan
When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The… — Isaac Todhunter
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support… — Vincenzo Galilei

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