Top 25 Sufficient Quotes of 33

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.

Believe, Proof, Sufficient

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Law, Unnecessary, Sufficient

Attributed to Emile Durkheim in "Readings in Renewing American Civilization" edited by Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Albert Stephen Hanser (p. 54), 1993.

It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.

Uthman ibn Affan

Envy, Joy, Sufficient

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

Mechthild of Magdeburg

Stupidity, Enough, Sufficient

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

Stephen Dunn

Like Love, Lovely, Insufficient

Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning.

Chris Argyris

Individual, Organizational, Insufficient

Chris Argyris, Donald A. Schön (1978). “Organizational learning: a theory of action perspective”, Addison-Wesley

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men, Sufficient

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.496, Bantam Classics

God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

John Nelson Darby

Age, Church, Sufficient

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

Mahalia Jackson

Voice, Mind, Sufficient

I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Self, Mature, Self Sufficient

It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

Judith Rodin

Sufficient

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Samuel Johnson

Good And Evil, Evidence, Sufficient

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

Joseph Stowell

Self, Deceit, Self Sufficient

Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists.

David Petraeus

Political, Progress, Sufficient

"Crocker, Petraeus Testify Before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Iraq". David Petraeus' remarks at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing hosted by Carl Levin, media.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

Erica Jong

Needs, Ifs, Sufficient

We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.

Bill Mollison

Earth, Heal, Sufficient

Source: permaculturenews.org

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient.

Robert Ley

Faith, Sufficient

"Fate — I believe!". Speech on November 03, 1936. "Wir alle helfen dem Führer". Book by Robert Ley, pp. 103-114, research.calvin.edu. 1937.

If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.

John Piper

Tasks, Ifs, Sufficient

Adequacy is sufficient.

Adam Osborne

Adequacy, Sufficient

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

Edward Abbey

Lying, World, Sufficient

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

Clement Freud

Ignorance, Would Be, Insufficient

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

Fiction Stories, Fiction, Sufficient

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

Samuel Johnson

Men, Sufficient, Falsehood

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.222