Assertion Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assertion Authority Individualism Liberty Philosophy of Mind Power Progress
“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The combination of power, optimism and abstract thinking makes powerful people more certain. The more cut-off they are from others, the more confident they… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
“the quality of thoughts determines the quality of becoming and the quantity of human progress” — Ibikunle Laniyan Copy Share Image
“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own… — W. Arthur Lewis Copy Share Image
“The dominant social force that drives our thinking and our actions is the unconscious search and need for social proof.” — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The two enemies of the independent thinker: Society's disapproval and the individual's own sense of consistency. — Emerson Copy Share Image
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Authority is an inescapable fact of political existence, and to imply that anyone who respects authority is prone to violence against the weak and… — Dante L. Germino Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Within certain limits terminology is always arbitrary. But the definition of being-true as unveiling, making manifest, is not an arbitrary, private invention of mine;… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones.… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
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