Mere Quotes

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The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac. — Sharon Begley
Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining. — Casper Smart
I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is… — Gautama Buddha
Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful. — Gautama Buddha
Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack. — Gautama Buddha
When Death lurks at the door, the physician is considered as a God. When danger has been overcome, the physician is looked upon as an… — Unknown Author
We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field of consciousness. Modalities… — Michael Beckwith
The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it… — Socrates
I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into my photographs beyond… — Bruce Barnbaum
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span… — Elizabeth Aston
Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a… — George Weigel
All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings… — Julia Serano
Follow your passion, we’re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your… — Umair Haque
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it… — Unknown Author
Perhaps that is the real surprise of love; it exists, but one may not attribute causes and effects to it. The existence may appear to… — Faraaz Kazi
At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism. — Erik Adigard
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied… — Albert Camus
[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a… — James Madison
History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A… — Glenn Greenwald
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. — C.S. Lewis
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two… — Hermann Minkowski
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it… — Benjamin Haydon
I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes. — Zachary Taylor

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