Plainly Quotes

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also… — Niels Bohr
Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat. — Carl von Clausewitz
(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park… — Carl Sagan
We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs. — Brother Lawrence
Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how… — Charles Darwin
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's… — Abraham Lincoln
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. — William Shakespeare
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and… — Thomas Jefferson
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy. — Abraham Lincoln
Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary… — Michel de Montaigne
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written… — Abraham Lincoln
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all… — Charles Darwin
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect… — Edward Abbey
How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer. — Abraham Lincoln
After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing… — William Safire
Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves. — Antonio Machado
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it. — Henri Bergson
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our… — Marquis de Sade

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