Mere Quotes - page 2

The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards. (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. View quote
Richard Owen
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. View quote
Edmund Burke
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress. View quote
Samuel Johnson
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. View quote
William Godwin
The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything. She wants all the information you can give her. View quote
David Ogilvy
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear the strength so strong mere force is feebleness the truth more first than sun, more last than star. View quote
E. E. Cummings
Made poetry a mere mechanical art. View quote
William Cowper
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. View quote
John Muir
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. View quote
Emily Dickinson
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. (John Henry Newman)
Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. View quote
William Wordsworth
Of course, we need not be surprised if artistic excellence goes unrecognized on account of being unknown; but there should be the greatest indignation when, as often, good judges are flattered by the charm of social entertainments into an approbation which is a mere a pretence. View quote
Vitruvius
The mere imparting of information is not education. View quote
Carter Woodson
Poetry's a mere drug, Sir. View quote
George Farquhar
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. View quote
Thomas Sowell
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. View quote
Lord Byron
people can die of mere imagination. View quote
Geoffrey Chaucer
A judgment, for me is not the mere grasping of a thought, but the admission of its truth. View quote
Gottlob Frege
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. View quote
Marie Curie
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. View quote
Benjamin Jowett
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are not creatures of despair. View quote
Joseph Conrad
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. View quote
C. S. Lewis