Purely Quotes
573 Purely quotes by 482 unique authors
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In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical…
— Jean Piaget
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Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.
— Frederick Seitz
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During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than…
— George Orwell
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Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.
— Linda Ellerbee
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I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such an…
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind.
— Scott Barry Kaufman
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Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to…
— Shams Tabrizi
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All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.
— Ian Curtis
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What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that…
— John Frusciante
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When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for…
— Wayne Dyer
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This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional…
— Kent Nerburn
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I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just…
— Pope Francis
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There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat…
— Saul Williams
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You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golf
— Jack Nicklaus
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When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing…
— Paul Oakenfold
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I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite…
— C.S. Lewis
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
— Calvin Coolidge
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When you look at nutrition from a purely scientific point of view, there is no place for consciousness. And yet, consciousness could be one of…
— Deepak Chopra
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Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.
— Robert Fripp
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Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.
— Michael Chiklis
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Dogs have always provided a special kind of love and companionship that I experience only some of the time with humans. They have a strong…
— Linda Gray
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Surfers are the ‘throw-aheads’ of mankind, not the dregs; they aren’t the black sheep of humanity, but the futurists and they are leading the way…
— Timothy Leary
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In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical,…
— A.J. Ayer
Who Wrote These Purely Quotes
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