Requisite Quotes

134 quotes by 102 authors

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts… — Samuel Johnson
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of… — Isaac Barrow
So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call… — Thorstein Veblen
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced. — Ned Rorem
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by… — Thomas Carlyle
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the… — Aldo Leopold
College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts. — Pat Conroy
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first… — Henry David Thoreau
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. — Joseph Addison
They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting. — William Penn
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. — Euripides
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. — Ned Rorem
The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that… — Theodore Roosevelt
Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the general welfare. Whenever,… — James Madison
Receptivity is the first requisite of the disciple, and of anyone who wants to learn anything. We can be anything else we like: we can… — Sangharakshita
The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility. — Felix Frankfurter
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. — Sigmund Freud
Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package. — Sloane Crosley
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles… — Benjamin Disraeli
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the… — Henry Hazlitt

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