“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
“We urge the President of India not to give his assent to this undemocratic legislation, and initiate public debate on the complex causes of conflict, rather than treat it as a law and order problem.”
Warren Christopher
“We have created you, why do you not then assent? / Have you considered the seed? / Is it you that create it or are We the creators? / We have ordained death among you and We are not to be overcome, / In order that We may bring in your place the likes of you and make you grow into what you know not.”
quran
“Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- .”
Emily Dickinson
“God is only as strong as your belief in him.”
Sachin Kumar Puli
“Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That these cases belong to past or to future times, that they have or have not already occurred, makes no difference in the applicability of the rule to them. Because the rule prevails, it includes all cases.”
William Whewell
