Almost Wholly Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

• Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you… — Arthur Eddington
• I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I… — George Washington Carver
• It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods. — Thomas Jefferson
• Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is… — Alfred North Whitehead
• Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the… — Thomas Huxley
• Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness… — John Tillotson
• The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly… — Russell Kirk
• Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely… — Henry David Thoreau
• My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups. — Enid Blyton
• I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different. — Josh Lieb
• When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off… — Donna Tartt
• The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. — P.G. Wodehouse
• He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not. — Chris Bohjalian
• It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
• I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion. — Michael Moorcock
• Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical… — John Shimkus

Who Wrote These Almost Wholly Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 16 Almost Wholly Quotes as follows:

• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by Arthur Eddington
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by George Washington Carver
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by Thomas Jefferson
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by Thomas Huxley
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by John Tillotson
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by Russell Kirk
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by Enid Blyton
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by Josh Lieb
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by Donna Tartt
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by P.G. Wodehouse
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by Chris Bohjalian
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by Michael Moorcock
• 1 Almost Wholly Quote by John Shimkus