Mere Quotes

A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

You cannot change the course of events, but you can change your attitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not the mere event.

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?

Noooo, there’s no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai!

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler

Miracles happen. But prayer is needed! Prayer that is courageous, struggling and persevering, not prayer that is a mere formality.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.

Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

Strength without agility is a mere mass.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith alone is no sound evidence of salvation.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss.