A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race… — James Cook Copy Share Image
I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what… — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but… — Paul Scofield Copy Share Image
What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certain governments are suggesting that bloggers and tweeters aren't 'real' writers and, so, don't merit protection. A writer is anyone from a… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase… — Gertrude the Great Copy Share Image
I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We're not breaking the rules. We're bending them, that's all. You get your foot in the door. But after that you will… — Merlin Copy Share Image
I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
