Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Next worst thing to unrequited Love, isn't it? Insufficient hate.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid. — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell Copy Share Image
Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — William James Copy Share Image
Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner. — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses. — John Simon Copy Share Image
Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no death-the thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life, Which is itself an insufficient name,… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you… — Greg Plitt Copy Share Image
Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . .… — William James Copy Share Image
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own.… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“Insufficient adjustment is also a source of tension between exasperated parents and teenagers who enjoy loud music in their room. Le Boeuf… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling… — Barbara Madsen Copy Share Image
We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“Whenever a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse for neglecting this important thing or that, it was indicative… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
