Principally Quotes

74 Principally quotes by 69 unique authors

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp. — Christian Nestell Bovee
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. — Earnest Hooton
In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent. — Swami Vivekananda
If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We… — Antonin Scalia
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to… — Nat Turner
I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to… — Hans Frank
To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question. — Robert Breault
It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg… — Alice Meynell
Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle… — Frederick Lenz
Happiness is found principally in meditation. — Frederick Lenz
Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at… — Robert Fortune
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of… — Francis Bacon
Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few… — Fulton J. Sheen
I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend… — Joshua Reynolds
Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed from a spiritual… — Emanuel Swedenborg
I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in… — Gerald R. Ford
Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen… — Frederick Lenz
The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best… — John Dryden
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. — Joseph Conrad
Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president. — Carly Fiorina
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing. — Gary Oldman
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946,… — Jerry Saltz

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