Rightly Quotes

405 quotes by 316 authors

It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror!… — Gerard De Nerval
If we think of prayer as the breath of our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows and the… — Oswald Chambers
God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not… — Giuseppe Mazzini
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. — Thomas Carlyle
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of… — Thomas Browne
Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not… — Adolf Hitler
In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for… — Saint Augustine
Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy. — George Saintsbury
To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe… — Thomas Jefferson
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. — Thomas Carlyle
Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known… — Soren Kierkegaard
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. — Thomas Carlyle
The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of… — Tim Berners-Lee
But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good. — Hartley Coleridge
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. — Thomas B. Macaulay
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. — John Ruskin
Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that… — John Dryden
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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