#assured

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#faith #feel #grave #infallible #like

The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#better #charmed #did #gratitude #her

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that. ↗

— Peter Singer

#accordance #clearer #convention #course #geneva

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#arena #assured #enemy #enough #enter

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#hang #indeed #most #must #separately

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#assured #else #error #fails #immortality

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#assured #broad #consciousness #consecrates #conviction

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. ↗

— Stendhal

#court #eternal #men #paying #power

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#also #assured #end #follow #free

We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#cometh #god #jesus #kingdom #known