Assertion Quotes

• Never argue, repeat your assertion.

  Robert Owen

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

  George D. Prentice

  Truth, Naked

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Perception, Cognition, Approval

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• 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.

  George Santayana

  Hate, Self, Rejection

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Sacrifice, Self, Sensible

  1982 Something like an Autobiography.

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

  James Anthony Froude

  Philosophy, Doubt, Philosopher

  Short Studies on Great Subjects Calvinism (p. 51)

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Flower, Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.535, Library of America

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• The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Death, Atheist, Fear

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

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• The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Use, Separation

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.90, Penguin

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• When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path

  Marshall Fritz

  Goal, Path, Reason

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• I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.

  Norbert Wiener

  Faith, Science, Men

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• If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Answers, Moral, Turns

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.278, NavPress

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• All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sweeping

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.136

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• I have a mathematical certainty that the future will confirm my assertion that aerial warfare will be the most important element in future wars, and that in consequence not only will the importance of the Independent Air Force rapidly increase, but the importance of the army and navy will decrease in proportion.

  Giulio Douhet

  War, Independent, Army

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.139, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Art, Mind, Cups

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.100, Rajpal & Sons

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• But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Mean, Responsibility

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

  David Corn

  Important, Evidence

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• For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

  John Stott

  Bible, God, Christian

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• The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values.

  Leo Strauss

  Simple, Men, Issues

  Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

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• Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.

  Frances Wright

  Understanding, Admitting, Like You

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.45

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• I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Honesty, Facts, Made

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.594, Jazzybee Verlag

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• "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Self, Independence, Mind

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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 'all accidents are preventable'.

  Rob Long

  Zero, Risk, Accepting

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

  Henry Flynt

  Self, Problem, Obvious

  "Towards an Acognitive Culture". Interview with Stewart Home, www.stewarthomesociety.org. March 08, 1989.

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• The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.

  Mark Twain

  God, Sorry, Lying

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.37, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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