Purely Quotes

573 Purely quotes by 482 unique authors

To understand something properly, we need to know it a little more; but to know someone purely, we need to understand our inner feelings truly… — Anuj
You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in… — John Hamill
Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own… — D. H. Lawrence
God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts. — Marcel Proust
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the… — Oscar Wilde
An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. — Allan Bloom
The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong… — Darrell Huff
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment… — Raymond Chandler
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as… — William H. Seward
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language… — Katherine Anne Porter
To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned… — Irving Babbitt
I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are… — Geoffrey Fisher
I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the… — Laura Marling
Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt… — Mahatma Gandhi
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. — Charles Sanders Peirce
If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness… — Eric Liu
But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen
I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going… — Stephen Root
China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China… — S. R. Nathan
I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work… — Charlize Theron
Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes… — Charles M. Vest
If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice. — Alexander Wang
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -… — Neil Postman

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