Thorough Quotes

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.

Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.

Our pat-down approach is very similar to what is being utilized in Europe and, as we know, around the world. It's even much more thorough in other parts of the world.

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

President Trump talks about extreme vetting, and we actually do have extreme vetting when it comes to refugee resettlement. Refugee resettlement is the most thorough, cumbersome, multilayered vetting system we have for the admission of anyone to the country.

Experience is a thorough teacher.

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.

The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I am a very thorough person.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself to some extent. But I'm not a skilled or thorough art historian and I wouldn't call myself an art critic.

I am a frighteningly thorough person.

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

Thoroughly to believe in one's own self,
so one's self were thorough,
were to do great things.