It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.
The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.
I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself to some extent. But I'm not a skilled or thorough art historian and I wouldn't call myself an art critic.
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
I am a very thorough person.
Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
I am a frighteningly thorough person.
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.
It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to something beyond the classroom; life.
Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.
We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately it's been a bloody, trying, wasteful, but eventually positive struggle.
Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
It is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no matter how much you love them, are using you or abusing you.
We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment.
A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.
My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.