Sufficient Quotes
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.
Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.
Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.
So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.
And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.
The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.
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.
You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.
The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.
No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.
Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.
The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.
Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.
The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.
To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.
Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.
Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.
Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.
In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.
However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.
We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?
I want to have young children although my mother and father are even now young sufficient to just take care of them.
Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.
The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.