Assertions Quotes
51 quotes by 47 authors
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost…
— Winston Churchill
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis…
— Paul Dirac
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By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce…
— Mark Doty
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Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing friends and family.…
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
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Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more…
— Victor Turner
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
— Ann Radcliffe
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The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers…
— Socrates
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From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly alike, and the…
— Edward Anthony Spitzka
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The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
— Rudolf Carnap
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No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by…
— Camille Paglia
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I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men…
— Heinrich Himmler
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If we accept that there is no such thing as 'zero risk' then we should not spin the meaning of words with assertions such as…
— Rob Long
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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
— William Feather
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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do…
— Ayn Rand
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There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and…
— Helen Thompson Woolley
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As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions of executive power…
— Mickey Edwards
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