Surely Quotes

1760 Surely quotes by 1196 unique authors

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Being aloof, gruff, or stern never got anyone anywhere. Who wants to be treated like that? Certainly not you. And surely not the people you… — Wayne D. Dosick
The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich,… — Lesslie Newbigin
We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as… — Barbara Kingsolver
Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men to look askance at the patenting of… — Elihu Thomson
Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my… — Mahatma Gandhi
I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider… — George Eliot
It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken. — Christina Rossetti
Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards. — Charles Spurgeon
An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all… — George Horace Lorimer
There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I… — William Hazlitt
Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true… — Leonardo da Vinci
Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart. — George Herbert
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark… — George Herbert
Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and… — Joseph Hall
Surely the stars are images of love. — Philip James Bailey
A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all… — Plutarch
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in… — Charles Horton Cooley
Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not… — Sun Tzu
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,… — Herbert Spencer

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