Assertion Quotes
Assertion Quote of the day
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.
Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.
I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.
There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.
Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.
At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being
It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.
Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.
If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.
If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect.
The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.
Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.
Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.
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 made the music.
Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.
Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.