We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have… — Ernest Thompson Seton Copy Share Image
I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is not mere negative non-injury. It is positive, cosmic love. It is the development of a mental attitude in which hatred… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up Wounds when the balsam could not, and without The aid of salves:--to think… — William Cartwright Copy Share Image
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and… — Ethan A. Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Pop stars are sending the message that their sexuality is the strongest thing they have to offer, and that's confusing and misleading… — Santigold Copy Share Image
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often… — Richard Wall Copy Share Image
Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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
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
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image