When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion. — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come &… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the… — Anne Spencer Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
About 70% of those released from prison return within a few years, and the majority of those who return in some states… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God. — John W. Foster Copy Share Image
Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge. — George Russell Copy Share Image
The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Saying I feel guilty is a mere form of words. Saying I feel ashamed is not. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
