Mere Quotes

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Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community,… — Unknown Author
If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information… — Paul Lockhart
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as… — Paulo Freire
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the… — Franz Grillparzer
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve… — Yukio Mishima
All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament. — Joseph Henry
If your organizationâ€™s intentions transcend the mere act of selling a product or service, and it is brave enough to expose its heart and soul,… — Gary Vaynerchuk
The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things. — Ann-Marie MacDonald
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike… — William Robertson Smith
At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by… — Jacque Fresco
The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of… — Robert Manne
A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere… — Haile Selassie
The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and… — Ken Wilber
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity. — Barry Goldwater
I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an… — E E Cummings
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is… — A J Muste
Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152… — Abba Eban
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. — Arthur Symons
There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist — Charles Rennie Mackintosh
A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts â€” a 'bundle of… — Joseph McCabe

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