Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying… — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter. — Edwin Boring Copy Share Image
What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we… — Emile Gaboriau Copy Share Image
Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility… — John Simon Copy Share Image
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We want to fan the flames of Christians for whom inerrancy and the authority of Scripture are not mere shibboleths, but part… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
