Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
What is the worst, is that you will have the meltdown of Zimbabwe that the IMF is talking about. And indeed what… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a… — Milton H. Erickson 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
Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student,… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt… — John Keats Copy Share Image
There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the… — Egerton Brydges Copy Share Image
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.' — C. S. Lewis 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
It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their… — Plato Copy Share Image
We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology. — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
In my career I have had many wonderful things happen to me, many more than I ever dreamed would ever happen. But… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image