#mere

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#learning #like #merely #more #never

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#before #found #had #means #merely

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#church #determine #director #doctrine #form

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#connection #didactic #even #exist #great

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#freedom #illusion #longer #merely #posses

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? ↗

— Maria Montessori

#always #antiquated #behind #conceived #development

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#children #grow #know #merely #more

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#absence #also #brought #come #condition

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#assumptions #been #describe #embodies #even

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget. ↗

— Bill Nye

#budget #cutting #engine #exploration #innovation