Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.
One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.
I don't think there are too many places left that humans haven't pretty thoroughly explored.
Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.
I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.
I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent. . . the camera.
The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. . . There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
My sons and I thoroughly enjoy Legos. We go to the toy store every week for more. I never want to take what we build apart; I want to put it on a shelf. My wife is starting to get a little annoyed with the Legos lying around.
I think for me, as a parent, once my children are thoroughly informed, they can make the decisions that they want to make. The only thing that I demand is a complete comprehension [of the information].