1.
The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
Benito Mussolini
2.
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
Adam Smith
3.
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
Zadie Smith
4.
The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.
Mencius
5.
I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
6.
These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces.
Ryan Lochte
7.
The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.
Emile M. Cioran
8.
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.
Richard Hofstadter
9.
The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.
Richard P. Feynman
11.
The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.
Nikos Kazantzakis
12.
...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.
Marcus Aurelius
15.
It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
Gustav Mahler
17.
Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.
Ronald Reagan
18.
Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.
Vaclav Havel
20.
When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.
Brandon Mull
22.
Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
Marquis de Sade
23.
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
Henry Miller
24.
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
Leon Trotsky
25.
Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
Sara Teasdale
26.
Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
Peter Drucker
29.
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
Paul Eldridge
30.
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
Allen Tate
31.
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.
John Dryden
32.
Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
William Cowper
33.
Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.
John Milton
34.
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
Walter Savage Landor
35.
Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.
William Mortensen
39.
A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
Victor Hugo
40.
The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.
Catherine of Genoa
41.
But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.
James Branch Cabell
42.
All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
Blaise Pascal
43.
Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.
Mahatma Gandhi
44.
My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
Henry James
45.
It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
Thomas Carlyle
46.
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
Boris Pasternak
48.
Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary
Julian Barnes
49.
But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement.
For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.
William Butler Yeats
50.
The Real [is] the sole foundation of the Ideal.
Grace Aguilar