Quotes About Assent

To read carefully, and not to be satisfied with a superficial understanding of a book; nor hastily to give my assent to those who talk overmuch.

Will nodded. "Good for him.

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

how vain, I say, it is to expect demonstration and certainty in things not capable of it; and refuse assent to very rational propositions, and act contrary to very plain and clear truths, because they cannot be made out so evident as to surmount every the least (I will not say reason, but) pretence of doubting.

The Cherokee Nation… is a distinct community, occupying its own territory… which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves or in conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress.

I was forced to agree.

Roberto nodded like a bobblehead doll on speed.' (Carlos)

This, until a better can be suggested, may serve as a substitute for the Categories of Aristotle considered as a classification of Existences. The practical application of it will appear when we commence the inquiry into the Import of Propositions; in other words, when we inquire what it is which the mind actually believes, when it gives what is called its assent to a proposition.

Much Madness is divinest Sense—To a discerning Eye—Much Sense—the starkest Madness—'Tis the MajorityIn this, as All, prevail—Assent—and you are sane—Demur—you're straightway dangerous—And handled with a Chain.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word—'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance.

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.

That's as well said, as if I had said it myself.

I agreed, with reluctance.

he was voting yes "with some reluctance.

They seemed to want her approval, without having to know whether she approved or not.

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself.

She couldn't argue with that. "I'll

Asentí con la cabeza. Al fin y al cabo asentir no puede considerarse exactamente una mentira, ¿no?

Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

I think you're right.

him, but I nodded.

Yes, boss," Rosie said.