Top 359 Thorough Quotes & Sayings

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.

Shah Rukh is an amazing person. I really adore him. He's such a thorough gentleman.

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.

Tamil cinema has always been special for me for people here are thorough professionals.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

One of the very first things I will do is to order a thorough review of our cyberdefenses and weaknesses.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

Wasim Akram is a splendid human being and a thorough gentleman.

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

I want to make thorough steps to create a system that will spur industry competition.

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.

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

I am a very thorough person.

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.

I am a frighteningly thorough person.

I like that by inherently having to make a group decision, you're really thorough. And I have a lot more confidence with a decision going forward if I know it's been thorough.

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

I'm very thoughtful and thorough when it comes to my looks and the detail I put into my drag.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

An entrepreneur need not know everything but he or she should lead a team of persons who are thorough in different aspects.

Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.

The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.

Beckett was the most thorough of playwrights. He tells you what to do and if you've any humility at all, you'll take his advice.

Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time

Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

It is an absolute delight to work with Ranveer. He is a thorough professional and at the same time, he is such a cool guy.

Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

I'm a huge fan of Green Day's album 'American Idiot'; it was just a whole, very thorough experience.

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

Just as bank tellers need a thorough knowledge of legitimate currency in order to spot counterfeit bills, so Christians need a thorough knowledge of the Bible in order to spot bogus religious teachings. How grounded are you in the Scriptures? How deep are your theological roots? How capable are you of detecting false teachings?

Experience is a thorough teacher.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online.

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

For a thorough use of ice cream cones, buy two; eat one and drop the other.

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

I have a thorough understanding of nutrition, and I feed my body only foods that support health.

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.

Prosecutors insist they are mounting a "thorough investigation," which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the fire burn down in an incendiary case. A thorough investigation is fine; an interminable one is disgraceful.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

Anyone who faces any kind of harassment should complain immediately so that a thorough investigation can happen.

Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.