T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us."
Assertion quotes
Assertion
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?"
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom"
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Style is effectiveness of assertion."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church."
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