Sufficient Quotes

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

My life has been largely spent in affairs that required organization. But organization itself, necessary as it is, is never sufficient to win a battle.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

He doubted whether any one with my nose could possess sufficient energy and determination for the voyage. But I think he was afterwards well satisfied that my nose had spoken falsely.

I bring to the work [of president] an honest heart; I dare not tell you that I bring a head sufficient for it.