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Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain. -- Emily Dickinson
One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How, for exciting youth's heroic flame, Assent is power, belief the soul of fact. -- William Wordsworth
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain -- -- Emily Dickinson
I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent. -- Al Franken
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel. -- William Gurnall
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. -- Walter Kaufmann
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. -- Aldous Huxley
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win. -- Asa Gray
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. -- Seamus Heaney
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy. -- Charles Hodge
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. -- William Ames
As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all. -- Joseph P. Bradley
I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which is a series of propositions. But it is still a mistake to suppose that it is assent to the propositions that makes you a believer. It is the feelings that are primary. -- Francis Spufford
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent. -- Pindar
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent. -- William Hazlitt
The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference. -- Ray Krone
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. -- Willa Cather
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out. -- Millard Fuller
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person." -- Walter Kaufmann
Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'. -- John William Strutt
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer. -- John Locke
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. -- Nigel Dennis
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me. -- Hermann Hesse
That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed. -- William Wake
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe. -- Blaise Pascal
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found? -- Marcus Aurelius
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma. -- Abraham Lincoln
Faith is more than getting a theological quiz right. Faith is to know, to assent, to put your trust in, and to cherish what is true. -- Kevin DeYoung
Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action. -- James E. Talmage
Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all. -- Jerry Adler
Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent. -- Ursula Goodenough
To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole. -- Josef Pieper
How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us! -- D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I only knew the schoolbooks said he died in the wilderness, of a broken heart.More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. -- Willa Cather
There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false. -- Lawrence Krauser
Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization. -- Chester A. Arthur
Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought. -- Janet Lembke
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. -- John Locke
Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt. -- Thomas Huxley
One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most â??evangelisticâ? movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals. -- D. A. Carson
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone. -- Thomas Kuhn
There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument. -- Laurence Sterne
Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent. -- Alexis de Tocqueville

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