Sole Quotes
505 Sole quotes by 402 unique authors
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I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."
— Dave Barry
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With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.
— Dorothee Solle
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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that…
— Karl Pearson
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Receive Communion often, very often...there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart…
— Therese of Lisieux
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The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
— Peter Drucker
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
— Marquis de Sade
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You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole purpose…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
— W. S. Gilbert
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Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.
— Sivananda
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During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced…
— Charles Darwin
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We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for.…
— Richard Dawkins
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Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.
— Henri Poincare
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An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human…
— Ambrose Bierce
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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason,…
— Gerhard Richter
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The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment,…
— Astley Cooper
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Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.
— Marie-Antoine Careme
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