Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie,… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event.… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty:… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small,… — Patrick Geddes Copy Share Image
Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Definitely with the fit of clothing - how it really depends on mere centimeters and millimeters of difference in terms of how… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming,… — George Fetherling Copy Share Image