Mere Quotes

The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Strength without agility is a mere mass.

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

Religion is a mere question of geography.

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria.

Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff.

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.

Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.

This item is a mere fleabite in the ocean of our expenditure.

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.