Assertion Quote by Rudolf Carnap

“Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. [Carnap’s famous plea for tolerance to…

— Rudolf Carnap

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...

— Benjamin Rush

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

— William Strunk, Jr

“Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation,…

— José Saramago

“Our judgements judge us; and nothing reveals us [or] exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.”

— Paul Valéry

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

— Neville Brody

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”

— Mark Abley

“Instead of doubting, document what you see, reflect on it, and if you see symbols, interpret them and document your interpretations.”

— Natalie Nolan

“The more clearly we are able to express ourselves, the less room there is for ambiguity. The more elaborate and the more precise our…

— John Humphrys

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

— Noam Chomsky

“A crassly arbitrary method can be avoided only when it is accepted that etymological statements are historical and not authoritative and that semantic statements…

— James Barr