It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities,… — William James Copy Share Image
Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I had a couple of releases including Dil Ka Rishta,' Koi Mere Dil Mein Hai,' Madhoshi,' and Julie,' but they were badly… — Priyanshu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading. — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Those in public office who do not love the people are thieves stealing salaries. Those who teach but do not themselves practice… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Self-worth is an understanding on the intellectual level, trusting at the heart level, and accepting at the soul level that you are… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny,… — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is.… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He has written neither doubt nor mere opinion into our hearts, but rather solid assurances, which… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
