Insufficient Quotes

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

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

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

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

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

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.

It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.

There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.

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

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in.

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.

In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.

Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.

The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That is a major change.

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.