The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere… — Michael Jensen Copy Share Image
Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you… — Jim Steinmeyer Copy Share Image
In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
President Obama is perhaps the most ideologically-motivated president in American history. But according to the ultimate authority, Barack Obama, he's a mere… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“What good is it to be a mere woman?” cried Esma, throwing her head back on the embroidered silk cushion. “To be… — Linda Lafferty Copy Share Image
It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand,… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a… — Dwight L. Moody 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
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 films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing. — Edward Dmytryk Copy Share Image
It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only… — Robert E. Howard 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
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