Mere Quotes · Page 12

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.

— Joseph Henry

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

— George Whitefield

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

— Madame de Stael

In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.

— Immanuel Kant

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

— C. S. Lewis

One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

— Alma Gluck

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

— Robertson Davies

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

— Thomas Carlyle

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

— Karl Marx

What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

— Joseph Conrad

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

— Henry David Thoreau

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last…

— Dave Barry

Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere…

— Mario Batali

Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a…

— Adam Sedgwick

The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal… Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is…

— C. S. Lewis

This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the…

— Aleister Crowley

You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people…

— David Attenborough

Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to…

— Frederick Lenz

This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to…

— Isaac Newton

Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation').…

— Timothy Keller

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man…

— H. L. Mencken

The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human…

— Andre Breton

The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization…

— Walter Cronkite

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere…

— Henry David Thoreau

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

— William James

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

— Lucien Febvre

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

— Thomas Browne

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

— Elvis Costello

God has invited us, as mere human beings, to add to the beauty of his plan and creation

— Sara Groves

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

— Wes Fesler

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

— Johannes Brahms