Quotes by Assertion Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface Alexander Stepanov assertion interfaces complexity We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence? Charles Dickens assertion silence This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself. David Corn assertion evidence important A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. George D. Prentice assertion naked truth Style is effectiveness of assertion. George Bernard Shaw assertion effectiveness style What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone. John Prendergast assertion diplomacy done All sweeping assertions are erroneous. Letitia Elizabeth Landon sweeping assertion 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. Leo Tolstoy assertion church christ Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us. T. S. Eliot assertion poetry-is real This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom Swami Vivekananda assertion this-life life-is Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. William Strunk, Jr. colorless assertion language A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth. George Dennison Prentice bare assertion naked truth