Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence;… — Francis Alexander Durivage Copy Share Image
Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My work has spoken for itself, and I've been offered work purely on merit. — Mandira Bedi Copy Share Image
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who… — Brigit of Kildare Copy Share Image
I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British. — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain… — Dogen Copy Share Image
The heart is that which lies at the centre of things, and is also formless. It is simple awareness devoid of movement… — Ajahn Thate Copy Share Image
In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit. — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention. — Amy Hardie Copy Share Image
Certainly it is permitted to anyone to put forward whatever hypotheses he wishes, and to develop the logical consequences contained in those… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
