Mere Quotes

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Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. — Thomas Carlyle
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing… — Washington Irving
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its… — Robert H. Jackson
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your… — George Santayana
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The… — Ambrose Bierce
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. — Charles Lamb
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace… — Oliver Sacks
Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes. — John Dewey
I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their… — Theodore Dreiser
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which… — Martin Luther
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the… — George Gissing
Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters. — Archibald Rutledge
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest… — John Ruskin
We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere… — Swami Vivekananda
Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for while the heart… — Marcello Malpighi
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This… — Bertrand Russell
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to… — Bertrand Russell
The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly… — Erwin Schrodinger

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