#insufficient

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. ↗

— George Santayana

#breathe #insufficient #like #live #necessary

Virtue is insufficient temptation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#temptation #virtue

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. ↗

— Rene Daumal

#common #confers #currency #drawn #exchange

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. ↗

— Maimonides

#another #capacity #certain #discover #during

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#after #anything #be true #belief #believe

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#believe #better #enough #forward #given

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#believe #civilized #civilized man #day #discharge

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry. ↗

— Bob Filner

#alone #children #control #dealing #educator

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#act #consoles #entrust #even #fact

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#action #children #commitments #decisively #deferring