Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes…

— William James

It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual…

— J. I. Packer

Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

— Henry A. Kissinger

He had delusions of adequacy.

— Walter Kerr

Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I…

— Alan Moore

“Mere adequacy is never adequate.”

— John Lanchester

To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group…

— Irvin D. Yalom

The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency.

— Alistair Begg

The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems,…

— Walter Kaufmann

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

— Ram Dass

If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world,…

— Ellen Langer

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Adequacy is sufficient.

— Adam Osborne

Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

— Adam Osborne