Mere Quotes

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Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do,… — Rollo May
Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the… — Arthur Davison Ficke
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them.… — Richard Schickel
My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda. — Goswami Kriyananda
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. — Ammianus Marcellinus
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at… — Ralph Cudworth
We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities… — Jeffrey Kluger
Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies. — Samuel Prout
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many factors... This is… — Erwin Schrodinger
Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural… — Antony Gormley
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? — Yann Martel
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather… — Arthur Middleton
The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of… — Walter J. Phillips
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and… — John Muir
These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by… — John Muir
The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need… — Walter Cronkite
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government. — Theodore Roosevelt
The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself. — Carter G. Woodson
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and… — Theodore Roosevelt

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