Merely Quotes

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Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far. — Henry Ford
I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me. — Charles Kingsley
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will… — Bertrand Russell
Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember… — Corrie Ten Boom
Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice. — H. L. Mencken
The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. — Alfred North Whitehead
One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale. — Simone Weil
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one. — Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. — Jerome K. Jerome
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy — Immanuel Kant
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. — Martial
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not… — Leopold von Ranke
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. — Theodor Adorno
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. — Kurt Vonnegut
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts. — Andrew Marr
Journalism is merely history's first draft. — Geoffrey Ward
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. — William Faulkner
Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure… — Mark Twain
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. — Irvin S. Cobb
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
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:… — Jacques Barzun
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with… — Karl Mannheim
Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be… — Charlotte Mason

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