Quotes About Assent

If actions speak louder than words, it is because they lend the weight of behavior (real assent) to belief (nominal assent).

There you go; seems to me you're right!

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

He could do that. Make her forget, even if it was just for a few seconds. She couldn't stop the slow nod of assent. Relief swept through her and she put her head back against the seat and closed her eyes. She didn't have to think anymore.

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.*6

But it is difficult for men to disbelieve a woman who insists that she wishes to serve them, and he nodded assent.

Right!" said Joe. "My middle name is Joseph, anyway.

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!

if one consults reason alone, one cannot assent to the articles of our faith it was full of mysteries; we are fools to try to explain them. This makes preaching Christianity not only a hard task but also dangerous. Had I know, I should never have been a preacher.

Men willingly believe when they want to.

For first cometh to the mind the simple suggestion, then the strong imagination, afterwards pleasure, evil affection, assent. And so little by little the enemy entereth in altogether, because he was not resisted at the beginning. And the longer a man delayeth his resistance, the weaker he groweth, and the stronger groweth the enemy against him.

For it is essential to opinion that we assent to one of two opposite assertions with fear of the other, so that our adhesion is not firm: to science it is essential to have firm adhesion with intellectual vision, for science possesses certitude which results from the understanding of principles: while faith holds a middle place, for it surpasses opinion in so far as its adhesion is firm, but falls short of science in so far as it lacks vision.

What is faith? Is it merely assent to facts?

That's…that's exactly

Plato's Socrates is not persuasive at all. He wins every argument, but never manages to win over an opponent. He has to fight every inch of the way for any assent he gets, and gets it, so to speak, at the point of a dagger.

and yes I said yes I will Yes.

The Master said, 'Can men refuse to assent to the words of strict admonition? But it is reforming the conduct because of them which is valuable. Can men refuse to be pleased with words of gentle advice? But it is unfolding their aim which is valuable. If a man be pleased with these words, but does not unfold their aim, and assents to those, but does not reform his conduct, I can really do nothing with him.

that he asked to have input in designing a new version. I was both amused and willing, so I readily assented. I ended up having more than forty interviews and conversations with him. Some were formal ones in his Palo Alto living room

Faith in the widest sense of the word, is assent to the truth, or the persuasion of the mind that a thing is true.

I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.

Almightiness consists much less in that which human beings imagine it to be, namely, changing things in accordance with one's own will—Jesus proved, through his miracles, that he could do that, too—than in exerting an influence on the freedom of human hearts without overpowering them. Enticing forth from them, through the mysterious power of grace, their free assent to the truly good.

Yes is the answer and you know that for sure. Yes is surrender, you got to let it, you got to let it go...

Publishers or those who influence them have evidently concluded that what American society needs to stay strong is citizens who assent to its social structure and economic system without thought.

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