Assertion Quotes

154 quotes by 133 authors

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken… — Dan Barker
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the… — Susan Sontag
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in… — Pearl Cleage
The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion… — Francis Bacon
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains. — Italo Calvino
Youth is insolent; it is its right â€“ its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is… — Joseph Conrad
To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values… — Nathaniel Branden
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and… — James F. Cooper
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths. — Arthur C. Clarke
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have… — H.G. Wells
â€¦there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a… — Kate Chopin
The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a… — Ha-Joon Chang
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots. — Oscar Wilde
Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events. — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air… — Karl Rahner
The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for… — Elisabeth Elliot
The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its… — Mark Twain

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