Merely Quotes

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The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also… — Paulo Freire
Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is… — Phillips Brooks
You are not on this planet to produce anything with your body. You are on this planet to produce something with your soul. Your body… — Neale Donald Walsch
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree… — Vishnudevananda Saraswati
One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life… — Jean Baudrillard
Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of… — Vaclav Havel
Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook… — Sakyong Mipham
Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. — Thomas Dreier
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view. — Seneca the Younger
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. — Robert Bolt
... For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate… — Stephen Jay Gould
We merely want to live in peace with all the world... — Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is not enough evidence, consistent evidence to make it as fact, and I say that because for theory to become a fact, it needs… — Christine O'Donnell
One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that… — Henry Norris Russell
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word… — William Jennings Bryan
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that… — Thomas Huxley
Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not… — Ludwig von Mises
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences. — Anne McCaffrey
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. — Oscar Wilde
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. — Woodrow Wilson

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