Namely Quotes

321 Namely quotes by 269 unique authors

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving… — Marcel Proust
Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my… — Rene Descartes
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than… — Plutarch
But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming… — William H. Seward
By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development.… — Lewis Mumford
For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst… — Renee Olstead
In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a… — Shmuley Boteach
...Bolshevism in its proper perspective, namely, as the most recent development in the age-long struggle waged by the Jewish Nation against...Christ... — Denis Fahey
The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in… — Richard Hofstadter
I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then I… — Gerhard Richter
Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what… — Willis Harman
Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in… — Ehud Barak
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage… — Edward Carpenter
...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers.… — Noam Chomsky
We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules. — Cesar Milstein
I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is… — Charles Darwin
It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and… — Max Born
I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is,… — Terry Gross
If we believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only begotten Son of God and that He came into this world and went to the… — Martyn
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics… — James Meade
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. — Thomas Huxley

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