Namely Quotes & Sayings

Namely Quotes & Sayings

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. - Aristotle



There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed. - Hannah More



He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. - Mark Twain



The greatest penalty of evildoing, namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men. - Plato



My objection to Liberalism is this, that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind, namely, politics, of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. - Benjamin Disraeli



We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can, namely, surrender our will and fulfil God's will in us. - Saint Teresa of Avila



If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor. - Wystan Hugh Auden