Chiefly Quotes

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It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. — Eric Hoffer
The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of… — Robert Frost
[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. — Henry Adams
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither… — Benjamin Franklin
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound… — John Locke
And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is… — Hannah Arendt
It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed.… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific… — Thomas Merton
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the… — John Owen
I have in this War a burning private grudgeâ€”which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called… — Jane Austen
The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other. — Edward Frederic Benson
Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires werenâ€™t the only… — Deborah Harkness
No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind. — John Irving
But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager… — Marilyn Monroe
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell. — Charles Dickens
We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. — Carl Jung
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the… — Jonathan Edwards
...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has… — Bruce Lee

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