Merely Quotes

3319 quotes by 1909 authors

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow… — Douglas MacArthur
The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part… — Albert Einstein
The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions… — Byron Katie
There is a secret psychology of money. Most people don't know about it. That's why most people never become financially successful. A lack of money… — T. Harv Eker
Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you… — Walter Russell
A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath. — T. Harv Eker
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the… — Frank P. Ramsey
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by… — Hans Zinsser
The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols;… — Charles Sanders Peirce
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there… — Henry David Thoreau
No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know,… — Alfred North Whitehead
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,… — Oliver Heaviside
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways… — Vannevar Bush
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. — John Ruskin
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of… — Lord Kelvin
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain… — Louis Agassiz
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and… — George Boole
I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting… — Robertson Davies

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