Thorough Quotes

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance of the formalism and by a generous admixture of common sense, as well as a thorough understanding both of the basic concepts and of the technical details of the formal material used. It should not be supposed that the formalism can grind out philosophical results in a manner beyond the capacity of ordinary philosophical reasoning. There is no mathematical substitute for philosophy.

No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.

Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.

There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least likely to resort to oppressive expedients, or sacrifice any particular class of citizens to the procurement of revenue. It might be demonstrated that the most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.