Merit Quotes

745 Merit quotes by 530 unique authors

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even… — Henry Louis Gates
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might… — Stephen Jay Gould
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a… — Alan Greenspan
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. — Charles Caleb Colton
Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't… — Sloane Crosley
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. — Emily Dickinson
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. — Benjamin Disraeli
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their… — Benjamin Disraeli
I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits. — Julian Fellowes
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns. — Jonathan Safran Foer
We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus… — Neil Patrick Harris
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
How vain, without the merit, is the name. — Homer
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its… — Elia Kazan
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of… — Joseph Lancaster
We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT… — Eric Liu
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for… — James Russell Lowell
My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that… — Max Lucado
In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is. — Norm MacDonald
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the… — Og Mandino
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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