Own Merits Quotes

35 quotes by 31 authors

[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to… — Morris Kline
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not… — Agnes Repplier
Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. — Edward Kennedy
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits. — John Calvin
If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you… — Dan Barker
Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils,… — James Russell Lowell
The truth is that we are saved by grace only after all we ourselves can do. (See 2 Ne. 25:23.) There will be no government… — Marion G. Romney
Thatâ€™s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thingâ€™s real, it just lives.Â All the attendant hoopla about it, the… — Woody Allen
All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man… — Vincent Bugliosi
I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own… — Dilma Rousseff
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth… — Benjamin Tucker
I was educated privately for free because I was a scholarship girl, 100% scholarship girl. I got it on my own merits. I would never… — Louise Mensch
I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits. — Park Geun-hye
I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits. — Cher
Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but… — Richard Dawkins
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits. — Eleanor Holmes Norton
The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits...… — John Calvin
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits. — Heloise
The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them. — Baltasar Gracian
I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits. — Sophie Kinsella

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