Top 268 Assertion Quotes & Sayings

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom

We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

Style is effectiveness of assertion.

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

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 circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human failings. They are the only consistent art in the United States which constantly remind us of our limitations while encouraging us to see how far we can actually go. When understood in their more profound implication, they are a corrective, an attempt to draw a line upon man's own limitless assertion.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

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.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women.

If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.

Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality.

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Never argue, repeat your assertion.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect.

Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.

Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being

The assertion that the war in Iraq has had no role in increasing the terrorist threat to Britain is clearly just intellectually unsustainable.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

Never argue; repeat your assertion.

There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

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.

For the assertion that "There is no God" is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that "There is a God." Therefore, the former assertion requires justification just as the latter does.

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.

I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion.

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.