T Quotes
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“The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.”
Source: The School and Society
“The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”
“The mere act of showing up for yourself each day will begin to shift the world in your favor.”
Source: Circuit Train Your Brain: Daily Habits That Develop Resilience
“The mere act of wanting is to say: God... What you have given me is not enough, I know better than you what I need, God... I do not trust you.
That is why the following formula is the only way to Peace and Joy:
“Expecting nothing + Appreciating everything = unshakable Peace and Joy”
Want is the source of ALL suffering.”
“The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose heart is in the right place is that the mind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resources, there is greater presence of mind.”
Source: The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868
“The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.”
“The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.”
Source: Addresses on International Subjects
“The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.”
Source: Dialogues of Plato
“The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.”
Source: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction
“The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.”
“The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.”
Source: Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]
“The mere environment around the Gnani Purush gives one the experience of liberation (moksha); the world remains absent from memory (vismrut)!”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less. Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . . No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best. No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.”
“The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.”
“The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.”
“The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.”
“The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings.they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.”
Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“The mere fact of Vegas, its necessity, was an indictment of our normal lives. If we needed this place--to transform into a high roller or a sexy swinger, to be someone else, a winner for once--then certainly the world beyond the desert was a small and mealy place indeed.”
Source: The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
“The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.”
“The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.”
“The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please.”
“The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.”
“The mere fact that my comments have caused such strong protests, although I'm not a European, and also the fact that I have been compared with certain persons in German history indicates how charged with conflict the atmosphere for research is in your country. Here in Iran you needn't worry.”
“The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that Darwin's theories apply solely to biological processes and not to processes of the spirit.”
“The mere fact that some women are upset by the presence of pornography tells us very little. It tells us nothing about whether porn is right or wrong, valuable or useless. After all, feminism distresses a great many people. Yet feminists would argue that the movement should not only be tolerated, it should be nurtured. They consider women's rights to have a positive, rather than a negative effect on society-even if it causes distress. Perhaps the same is true of the graphic depiction of sex.”
Source: XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography
“The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism. If Germans who were not even born before 1945 must pay reparations to the State of Israel, which did not exist until 1948, then you can be included in the Zionist racket of reparations and revenge.”
“The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor.”
Source: Riches Within Your Reach!
“The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.”
“The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing”
Source: 8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an
“The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.”
“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”
“The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives.”
“The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.”
“The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist”
Source: The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings
“The mere imparting of information is not education.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.”
“The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.”
“The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.”
“The mere making of a decision sometimes had as much power as any action. Purpose clarified every move, every thought.”
Source: Into the Dark
“The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and mechanical science, are a continual source of tranquil pleasure, and in spite of the gloomy dogmas of priests and of superstition, the study of these things is the true theology; it teaches man to know and admire the Creator, for the principles of science are in the creation, and are unchangeable and of divine origin.”
Source: The age of reason
“The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.”
“The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it.”
Source: Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback
“The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?”
“The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.”
Source: Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970-2006
“The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.”
“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.”
“The mere possession of a heavy overcoat made him feel vastly superior to the emaciated little man.”
Source: The Trial
“The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we do not, ourselves, understand and follow its truths. The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer. For centuries, others have sought their visions. They prepare themselves, so that if the Creator desires them to know their life's purpose, then a vision would be revealed. To be blessed with visions is not enough...we must live them!”
“The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.”