Satisfactory Quotes

164 quotes by 151 authors

What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by… — Annie Besant
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived;… — David Brainerd
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must… — Samuel Butler
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be… — Chanakya
We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force… — PZ Myers
Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to… — Alister E. McGrath
Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I… — Bill Gates
When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory. — Sun Tzu
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the… — Charles Dudley Warner
The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties… — Charles William Eliot
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically.… — Charles Lindbergh
There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something. — Marilyn Hacker
To us ... the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality-the quantitative and the qualitative, the… — Wolfgang Pauli
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more… — Joseph Priestley
Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard… — Abraham Lincoln
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising… — James Madison
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they… — David Hume
The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements of disorder and… — Benito Mussolini
I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a… — David Hume
Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief. — Joseph O. Shelby

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