Top 100 Quotes About Surer
#1. A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.
Mark Twain
#2. Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#4. Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,
a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.
Henry David Thoreau
#5. There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#6. There is no surer road to perdition than the ledger glands dictate your direction.
Lois Greiman
#7. By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.
George Orwell
#8. There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
Orison Swett Marden
#9. There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death.
Ann Coulter
#10. Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
Alan Barth
#11. Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
Sacha Guitry
#12. Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.
Ernestine Rose
#13. There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#14. There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.
Tom Watson
#15. The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.
George Horace Lorimer
#16. It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.
Paul Davies
#17. What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Augustus Hare
#18. The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee.
Benjamin
#19. The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer & more certain than sense & life itself.
Martin Luther
#20. Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt. There is no surer way to screw up an experiment than to be certain of its outcome.
Stuart Firestein
#21. What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?
Charlotte Bronte
#22. Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#23. As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
Lew Wallace
#24. We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
Charles Caleb Colton
#25. There was no surer way to lose the confidence of an audience, or a jury, than by letting them think faster than yourself, so that they became aware of what you were going to say before you said it.
Arthur Hailey
#26. There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
P.G. Wodehouse
#27. For some reason, the less you pay for a watch, the surer you can be that it will never stop.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#28. Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
Allan Sherman
#29. When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little technical jargon to spatter through their talk are always getting in the limelight. ... The less they know the surer they are about it.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
#31. You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
Samuel Johnson
#32. True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
Eric Hoffer
#34. When kindhearted people smile, demons shrink and turn away as if tormented by the gesture. But when those beautiful smiles are made to fade, every awful creature in the world stands surer. So do yourself and mankind a favor and smile BIG whether you feel like it or not.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#35. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
John Maynard Keynes
#36. No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.
Theodore Roosevelt
#37. She assured them,too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven's own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to stablish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#38. So the life I have made
May seem wrong to you
But, I've never been surer
It's my life to ruin
My own way ...
Morrissey
#39. Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved.
Graham Swift
#40. If one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.
Corra May Harris
#41. Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.
Hosea Ballou
#42. If men and women were surer of their God there would be more genuine manliness, womanliness, and godliness in the world, and a whole lot less fear of each other.
Elisabeth Elliot
#43. If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.
Alyson Noel
#44. A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.
Thomas A Kempis
#46. Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.
Hannah More
#47. There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
Bryant H. McGill
#48. Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.
Rudyard Kipling
#49. Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world.
George MacDonald
#50. There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
Calvin Coolidge
#51. There's no surer way to destroy a man than to force him into a spot where he has to aim at not doing his best, where he has to struggle to do a bad job, day after day.
Ayn Rand
#52. There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.
Joseph Alleine
#53. Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
Tryon Edwards
#54. Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#55. There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is.
Jane Frances De Chantal
#56. Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavour to accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up other men's ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish.
Swami Vivekananda
#57. There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
Havelock Ellis
#58. The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.
Benjamin Disraeli
#59. ...Cupid, who never shoots with a surer aim than through the steam of boarding-house hash, sniped him where he sat.
P.G. Wodehouse
#60. Politicians often talk too much and listen too little, which can be self-defeating, for in many instances the surer route to winning a friend is not to convince them that you are right but that you care what they think.
Jon Meacham
#61. Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
Robert Brault
#62. There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.
Learned Hand
#63. The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#64. There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbor.
John Calvin
#65. A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
Thomas A Kempis
#66. Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.
Janet Morris
#67. But then anytime you join in a mass movement you're going to find yourself standing alongside idiots. One reason people go to mass rallies is to become stupider and surer of themselves than they are when they're alone.
Tim Kreider
#68. There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.
Winston Churchill
#69. There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.
Owen Barfield
#70. The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.
Aeschylus
#71. If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
Charles Caleb Colton
#72. The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#73. Marriage
yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.
Mark Twain
#74. I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
Ben Jonson
#75. There is perhaps no surer way of infecting ourselves with virulent hatred toward a person than by doing him a grave injustice.
Eric Hoffer
#76. Since we parted yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,- One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,-thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
#77. There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.
Ted Gup
#78. Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.
Jeremy Taylor
#79. He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth.
Thomas Jefferson
#80. Why is it better to love than be loved? It is surer.
Sacha Guitry
#81. Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.
Romain Rolland
#82. There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Philip James Bailey
#83. Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#84. I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.
Euripides
#85. I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain
#86. It's a surer way to a woman's heart to be interested in what she's thinking than what she's wearing or not wearing.
Tina Louise
#87. A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.
Thomas Davis
#88. The greatest and most important thing in the world is founded on weakness. This is a remarkably sure foundation, for nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.
Blaise Pascal
#89. Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they've got right on their side.
Stephen King
#90. It was safer to walk softly, and surer to ask instead of telling.
Stephen King
#91. The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
Leonard Cohen
#92. There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.
Graham Lowe
#93. Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!
Norman Vincent Peale
#94. And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive.
Roy Barnes
#95. Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege of the passions alone to bring them to light, and to direct us sometimes to surer and more excellent aims than conscious effort could.
Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
#96. There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.
William Hazlitt
#97. There is no surer basis for fanaticism than bad history, which is invariably history oversimplified.
Diarmaid MacCulloch
#98. There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
Henry Fielding
#99. Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Robert South
#100. A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
H.G.Wells
