Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others—or allow ourselves… — Philip Toshio Sudo Copy Share Image
Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas 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
The United States is the greatest threat to world peace, and has been for a long time, and not merely because it… — T. D. Allman Copy Share Image
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image