Necessary Quotes - page 4

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. (Hermann Ebbinghaus)
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. View quote
Kathleen Norris
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. View quote
Francis of Assisi
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation is possible. View quote
Franz Werfel
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next. View quote
Saul Bellow
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. (Karl Marx)
The superfluous is very necessary. View quote
Voltaire
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. View quote
Larry Wall
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. View quote
Abdul Kalam
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. View quote
Ronald Reagan
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. View quote
Bill Cosby
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified. (John Updike)
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. View quote
Daniel Webster
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole. View quote
Fritz Zwicky
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. View quote
Thomas Jefferson