#assertions

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assertions #beautiful #correction #divinity #foolish

All sweeping assertions are erroneous. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#erroneous #sweeping

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#basis #build #coalition #doctrine #embraced

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

— William Strunk, Jr.

#avoid #colorless #definite #hesitating #language

A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#presumption #r-alan-woods #refuting #r-alan-woods

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#assertions #being #contradicted #extremes #fear

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#answer #assertions #commission #contradictions #experience

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#assertions #authentic #consequence #credible #defined

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#am #among #anywhere #assertions #cases

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it. ↗

— William Feather

#back #cannot #done #ninety-nine #nothing