Chiefly Quotes

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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain -… — Kate Chopin
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of… — Henry David Thoreau
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art… — Alexander Pope
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find sects… — Thomas Reid
A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life. — Theodore W. Parker
I do not value religion chiefly for its morality. — Leon Wieseltier
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence. — Eric Hoffer
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy… — Lafcadio Hearn
We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school… — Max Beerbohm
Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age… — Carl Sagan
...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought… — Max Muller
If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely,… — C.S. Lewis
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses. — Bertrand Russell
We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands. — Paul Robeson
To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is… — H.G. Wells
We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God. — Charles Spurgeon
OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object… — Ambrose Bierce
It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which… — David Lilienthal

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