Merely Quotes

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.