Top 25 Mere Quotes of 81 - Page 4

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

Matthew Woodring Stover

Chance, Life Is, Mere

Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.287, Del Rey

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Margaret Fuller

Perfection, Existence, Mere

Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.65, Courier Corporation

Everything is mere opinion.

Marcus Aurelius

Opinion, Mere

Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.

Mahatma Gandhi

Cows, Protection, Mere

Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Matter, Ahimsa, Mere

Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.

K. W. Jeter

Let Me, Sentiments, Mere

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Jean de la Bruyere

Writing, Genius, Mere

"The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". "Of the Works of the Spirit". Book by Jean de la Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.

Homer

Battle, Cures, Mere

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

Glen Cook

Moving, Rational, Hammered

Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.391, Macmillan

Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.

George Russell

Communication, Function, Mere

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Instruments, Circumstances, Mere

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.207, VM eBooks

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.

Egerton Brydges

Book, Mere, Converses

Sir Egerton Brydges, Robert Pearse Gillies (1813). “The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical, and sentimental essays”, p.143

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream

Charlotte Bronte

Dream, Phantoms, Mere

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.228, Penguin

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

Charles M. Schwab

Mere, My Own, Values

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

Charles Lamb

Dresses, Caprice, Mere

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Knowledge, Performances, Mere

Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.114