Scarcely Quotes

384 Scarcely quotes by 278 unique authors

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic. — Albert Einstein
It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can be… — John Herschel
Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal,… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. — Thomas B. Macaulay
If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year… — Abraham Lincoln
But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. — Russell Hoban
Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in… — Benjamin Franklin
Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world, and you will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men's… — David Hume
Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident.… — Albert Schweitzer
Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and… — Rose Macaulay
We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of… — John Dalton
Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. — Hosea Ballou
A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy… — Arthur Eddington
What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge… — Unknown Author
Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to… — Victor Hugo
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy,… — Bergen Evans
Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor… — Margaret Sanger
Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to… — Robert Breault
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition… — John Maynard Keynes
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for… — Lord Kelvin
Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and… — Unknown Author

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