Pure Quotes

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. (Oscar Wilde)
There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science. View quote
Louis Pasteur
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. View quote
Steve Jobs
Only the pure in the heart can make a good soup. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure. View quote
M. C. Escher
Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement. View quote
Lope de Vega
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. View quote
Arthur Eddington
My heart is as pure as the driven slush. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. View quote
James Baldwin
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations. (Sigmund Freud)
There is no small pleasure in pure water. View quote
Ovid
People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point. View quote
George Carlin
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. View quote
Thornton Wilder
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed. View quote
Ernest Renan
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied... For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. View quote
G. H. Hardy
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. (James Joseph Sylvester)
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. View quote
George Orwell
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. View quote
Mitch Daniels
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. View quote
Paul Cézanne