“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter… — Dennis Altman Copy Share Image
Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken;… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more,… — William Johnson Sollas Copy Share Image
For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value. — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is… — Jean-Francois Millet Copy Share Image
Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. — John Updike Copy Share Image
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I know by experience that Jesus Christ is a very powerful spirit - I know by experience that he is probably the… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property… — Polybius Copy Share Image
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
