Definition of Assert

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Assert

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

To maintain; to defend.

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.

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Assert Quotations

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin

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.
Albert Camus

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
Alfred Adler

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
Maimonides

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
Charles Horton Cooley

It's dangerous to assert oneself.
Jeanne Moreau

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
Jonathan Edwards

Assert Translations

assert in Dutch is beweren, verzekeren
assert in French is affirmer, affirment, faire valoir, affirmons
assert in German is behaupten, behaupte, behaupten
assert in Italian is affermare, far valere
assert in Norwegian is hevde
assert in Portuguese is afirme
assert in Spanish is opinar

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