The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor... — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading. — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence. — John White Geary Copy Share Image
Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. — George Combe 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 truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no… — Lucian Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by… — Adelard of Bath Copy Share Image
Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I was a mere tourist with no part whatever in this great conflict; but it was my rare privilege, through an unusual… — Henry Dunant Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science. — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
