Best Thorough Sayings
189 Thorough quotes by 165 unique authors
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If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.
— Unknown Author
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Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should be taken into…
— Ira Remsen
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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little…
— Immanuel Kant
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Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.
— David Bronstein
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Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a…
— George Armstrong Custer
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By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the…
— Garry Kasparov
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time…
— Florenz Ziegfeld
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons…
— Rene Descartes
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If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be done…
— David Murray Cowie
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A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which…
— Richard Reti
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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places…
— Oscar Wilde
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The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that I have…
— James H. Fowler
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What do you think science is? There is nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and…
— Steven Novella
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From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is the central task…
— Thomas Armstrong
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How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
— Wendell Berry
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
— Agnes Repplier
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Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its…
— Jacques Monod
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Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is heavy light; and bears evenly all that is…
— Thomas a Kempis
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The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.
— Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable…
— Claire Weekes
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Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
— Hakuin Ekaku
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I have a thorough understanding of nutrition, and I feed my body only foods that support health.
— Louise Hay
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