Wholly Quotes

630 Wholly quotes by 464 unique authors

No judge writes on a wholly clean slate. — Felix Frankfurter
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to… — Margaret Fuller
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. — John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. — Mahatma Gandhi
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. — Aleister Crowley
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. — Rene Descartes
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the… — Indra Devi
There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly… — Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it… — Theodore Dreiser
You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. — Epictetus
I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become… — Mark Haddon
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to… — Aldous Huxley
Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment.… — Eric Liu
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains… — W. Somerset Maugham
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never… — Marilyn Monroe
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we… — Max Muller
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. — Thomas Paine
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. — Thomas Paine
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true… — Ezra Pound
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms,… — Auguste Rodin
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever… — Eleanor Roosevelt
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt
It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either… — Zadie Smith
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly… — Lysander Spooner

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