Sufficiently Quotes

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.