merely Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about merely.
“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”
- Henry Hazlitt
“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.”
- Alvin Toffler
“We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.”
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?”
- John Calvin
“For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.”
- Emile M. Cioran
“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”
- Napoleon Hill
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
- Mark Twain
“The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.”
- Kathryn Bigelow