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asserts

«What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could also call the supra-finite), that is an unbounded ascending lader of definite modes, which by their nature are not finite but infinite, but which just like the finite can be determined by well-defined and distinguishable numbers.»
«The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found»
«The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded»
«To know oneself, one should assert oneself.»
«To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.»
«To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.»
«To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.»
«Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | About: Wisdom | Keywords: asserts

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