1.
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.
Ignatius of Loyola
'For the faithful, no demonstration is necessary. For the doubtful, no amount of evidence will be satisfactory.'
2.
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
Emile Durkheim
When morals are adequate, regulations are superfluous. When morals are inadequate, regulations are unworkable.
3.
It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.
Uthman ibn Affan
6.
A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
7.
The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
Mahalia Jackson
8.
It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.
Judith Rodin
9.
Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists.
David Petraeus
11.
We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.
Bill Mollison
12.
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
Erica Jong
13.
If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.
John Piper
14.
Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient.
Robert Ley
16.
The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.
Edward Abbey
17.
A word to the wise is sufficient
Plautus
18.
It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.
Richard Summerbell
19.
A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
Samuel Johnson
20.
Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.
Bryant H. McGill
21.
When you won't be able to describe it simply just, you don't are aware of it well sufficient.
Albert Einstein
22.
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
Tim O'Brien
23.
Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.
Adam Osborne
24.
God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.
James MacDonald
26.
I'm dead in the water if I can't see the all sufficient glory of God.
Louie Giglio
27.
If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
William Penn
28.
The words you've bandied are sufficient;
'Tis deeds that I prefer to see.
[Ger., Der Worte sind genug gewechselt,
Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29.
We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.
Jimmy Sangster
30.
It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
John Dryden
31.
Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.
Mason Cooley
32.
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
John Milton