Other Merit Quotes

6 quotes by 6 authors

• If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good… — Hakim ibn Hizam
• Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no… — E F Schumacher
• The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the… — Bernard Lown
• When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer… — Jean de la Bruyere
• A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence. — Friedrich Schiller
• We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works… — Samuel Johnson

Who Wrote These Other Merit Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 6 Other Merit Quotes as follows:

• 1 Other Merit Quote by Hakim ibn Hizam
• 1 Other Merit Quote by E F Schumacher
• 1 Other Merit Quote by Bernard Lown
• 1 Other Merit Quote by Jean de la Bruyere
• 1 Other Merit Quote by Friedrich Schiller
• 1 Other Merit Quote by Samuel Johnson