Famous Quotes
15 Quotations with Assent.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial ri ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge a ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
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- 4. Ambrose Bierce: REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and folli ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 8. Stephen Jay Gould: In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be pe ...
- 9. Nigel Dennis: Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since co ...
- 10. Georges Bataille: Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
- 11. Adolphe Tanqueray: Faith is a theological virtue that inclines the mind, under the influence of the ...
- 12. E.T. Hiscox: Faith is an assent of the mind and a consent of the heart, consisting mainly of ...
- 13. Aldous Huxley: That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane hum ...
- 14. John Jay Chapman: You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do ...
- 15. Stephen Jay Gould: In science, fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perve ...