Sufficiently Quotes
312 Sufficiently quotes by 261 unique authors
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The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
— Unknown Author
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It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone.…
— D. Michael Quinn
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I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy…
— Balfour Stewart
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In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the…
— Unknown Author
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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be…
— David Hume
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[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he…
— Immanuel Kant
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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
— Seneca the Younger
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Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form.…
— Unknown Author
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All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute;…
— Swami Vivekananda
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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to…
— Amy Hempel
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The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.
— Raymond E. Feist
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There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.
— Lawrence Watt-Evans
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Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.
— Unknown Author
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For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to…
— Aldo Leopold
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Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
— Thomas Sowell
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There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could…
— John Holdren
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The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the…
— Thomas Paine
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As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we…
— Thomas Berry
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... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to…
— James Madison
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