Merely Quotes

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Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them. — Brian Tracy
A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of… — Ayn Rand
A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world. — Dalai Lama
An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time. — Seth Godin
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful. — Mahatma Gandhi
God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God. — C.S. Lewis
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being… — C.S. Lewis
Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the… — D. H. Lawrence
Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them. — David Attenborough
It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there. — Charles R. Swindoll
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be… — Reuben Archer Torrey
Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it. — C. Wright Mills
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for… — Rene Descartes
God is not merely at your fingertips but within your grasp. Live each day like a child digging through an antique treasure chest rifling for… — Margaret Feinberg
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience. — D. A. Carson
From people who merely pray we must become people who bless. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing. — Jacque Fresco
To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy. — John Diamond
Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals. — Tony Robbins
Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time. — Rolf Potts
All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline. — Douglas Groothuis
To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in… — Bruce Lee
Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous… — Timothy Leary

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