Top Assent Quotes
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley
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
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
William Gurnall
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
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mohandas Gandhi
William Gurnall 
Stephen Jay Gould 
Nathaniel Hawthorne 
Aldous Huxley 
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley 
80% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
William Gurnall
53% of people like this quote
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
53% of people like this quote
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mohandas Gandhi
53% of people like this quote
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
51% of people like this quote
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
48% of people like this quote
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
48% of people like this quote