Thoroughly Quotes

588 Thoroughly quotes by 475 unique authors

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. — Herman Melville
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. — Charles Caleb Colton
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs… — Albert Einstein
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more. — L. Ron Hubbard
When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even… — Byron Katie
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service. — Joseph Heller
There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody,… — Orson Scott Card
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and… — Anne Bradstreet
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication… — Heinrich Hertz
A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did… — Henry Ward Beecher
Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly… — George Washington Carver
[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness. — George Washington
Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming. Often,… — Barack Obama
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to… — Georges Cuvier
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science. — William Hazlitt
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws… — Charles Darwin
The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there is as little… — Walter Bagehot
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya
ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term; it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as… — Chapman Cohen
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on. — Sun Tzu
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an… — Albert Schweitzer
Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail;… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

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