Mere Quotes

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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to… — Rollo May
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise. — Rumi
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition. — Archibald Alexander Hodge
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people… — Pearl S. Buck
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. — Norman Ralph Augustine
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar. — Jefferson Davis
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational… — Mark Twain
Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration. — Mark Twain
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. — Johannes Brahms
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To… — Albert Einstein
Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the… — Charlotte Mason
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective… — Albert Einstein
Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit… — Nicholas Trist
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and… — Henry David Thoreau
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. — H.G. Wells
Poetry's a mere drug, Sir. — George Farquhar
The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become… — Hassan II of Morocco
To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men,… — Pope Paul VI
The mere absence of war is not peace. — John F. Kennedy
Made poetry a mere mechanic art. — William Cowper

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