Top 587 Readily Quotes & Sayings

[One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

It loves more readily than it hates.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

To me it is just common sense that we should be making apprenticeships readily available to every young person who wants to go down that route - and encouraging people to consider taking this path just as readily as we would encourage someone to look into a university degree.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

I will readily confess that I'm a coffee addict.

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

I like it when I go to a city and it puts its personality out there to be readily experienced.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.

When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us [the future] cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us [the past] cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it is in front of our minds' eyes, always reminding us of its presence. The past is alive in us, so in more than a metaphorical sense the dead are alive - we are our history.

Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as readily as theology, or a channeled Atlantean priest as readily as a biblical prophet.

The building blocks of life are readily available throughout the universe.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

In general, people are administered drugs too readily.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so much. The facts are exactly opposite-the reason we have so much is simply because we discard things so readily. We replace the old in return for something that will serve us better.

According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Video just accesses international information so much more readily.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Who lacks confidence speaks lies more readily.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

When you don't like something the words come more readily.

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.