Mere Quotes

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You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with… — John Ruskin
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In… — Adrienne Rich
Mere curiosity adds wings to every step. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and… — Charles Caleb Colton
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the… — William James
WhereÂ the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steadyÂ on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and… — Martin Luther
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you. — Ramana Maharshi
Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth. — Sri Chinmoy
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in… — Milton Friedman
In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith… — Paul Washer
To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them… — J C Ryle
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We… — J C Ryle
Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights… — M.F.K. Fisher
As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere… — Karl Mannheim
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends… — Arthur Schopenhauer
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. — Wilhelm Dilthey
The Monsterâ€™s crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked. — Douglas Preston
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is… — Stephen Harper

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