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Assertion Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
- Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
More Assertion Quotes
- Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that… — Charles Spurgeon
- Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 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… — Ayn Rand
- I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion. — Michael Faraday
- There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place… — David Hillis
- I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy… — William Howard Taft
- The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti