Namely Quotes

321 Namely quotes by 269 unique authors

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something… — E. M. Forster
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty. — Thomas Hood
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had… — Khaled Hosseini
A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex… — Jacques Lacan
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to… — Bjorn Lomborg
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the… — Ramana Maharshi
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. — Karl Marx
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not… — John Stuart Mill
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists… — Susan Orlean
I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry… — Karl Rove
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. — Erwin Schrodinger
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to… — George Soros
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from… — Emanuel Swedenborg
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. — Simone Weil
No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact… — Tom Wolfe
The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of… — Tom Wolfe
I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God. — Johann Sebastian Bach
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering… — Pope Benedict XVI
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But… — Francis Bacon
This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise. — Bertrand Russell

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