Mere Quotes

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.