Thorough Quotes

• A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bible, Christian, Education

  "Stepping Stone : The Complete Bible Narratives". Book by John Thomas Clark, 1941.

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• There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

  George Washington Carver

  Life, Cutting, Thorough Understanding

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• Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

  William Feather

  Positive, Rain, Learning

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.

  Arthur Currie

  Preparation, Neglect

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• Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Motivational, Work, Views

  Speech delivered at Scottish Church College, Kolkata, December 7, 1935.

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• Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can.

  Marie Colvin

  Inspirational, Honesty, Believe

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• The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

  Aristotle

  Life, Teacher, Teaching

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• Experience is a thorough teacher.

  Mary Jane Holmes

  Teacher

  Mary Jane Holmes (1864). “Cousin Maude and Rosamond”, p.64

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• I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Thorough Understanding, People

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• Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.

  David Allen

  Details, Needs, Week

  David Allen (2011). “Ready For Anything: 52 productivity principles for work and life”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

  William E. Gladstone

  Ignorance, May, Remember

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• The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

  John Locke

  Education, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 88 (1693)

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• Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Real, Thorough Knowledge, Shy

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings”, p.309, Shambhala Publications

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• Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Courage, Regret

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• Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time

  Charles Eisenstein

  Choices, Happens

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• Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Science, Together

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be done with thoroughness. To be thorough in medicine means that in the ever alluring present, we do not forget the past.

  David Murray Cowie

  Mean, Past, Medicine

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• The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.

  Alexander Grothendieck

  Math, Understanding, Would Be

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• True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.

  J. C. Ryle

  Hatred, Sorrow, Goes On

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• It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Men, Light

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• I am a frighteningly thorough person.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Persons

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• Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Simple

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.121, Wildside Press LLC

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• I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.

  Robert Browning

  Writing, Belief, Conviction

  Robert Browning (2015). “Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett”, p.261, e-artnow sro

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• Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Doubt, Denial, May

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  I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

  Russell Brand

  Funny Love, Love You, Romantic Love

  "Baby fever for Russell Brand?" by Simon Perry, www.cnn.com. December 7, 2009.

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