Thoroughly Quotes

588 Thoroughly quotes by 475 unique authors

A badge is a symbol that girls have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to be prepared to… — Juliette Gordon Low
One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this… — Jil Sander
Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten. — Pythagoras
How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such… — Saint Francis de Sales
A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the… — Nichiren
Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical,… — Henry Adams
Withdraw now from the invisible pounding and weaving of your ingrained ideas. If you want to be rid of this invisible turmoil, you must just… — Hongzhi Zhengjue
In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the… — Henry James Sumner Maine
Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted… — Antonin Scalia
The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than… — George Bernard Shaw
A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself,… — Charles Caleb Colton
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven… — Emma Goldman
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and… — Benjamin Franklin
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the… — Harry Connick, Jr.
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as… — Leonardo da Vinci
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will… — Salvador Dali
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to,… — Charles Dickens
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better… — Umberto Eco
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. — Thomas A. Edison
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. — Thomas A. Edison
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be… — George Eliot

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