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  • Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

    David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1314, Delphi Classics
  • When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.

    "Protagoras". Book by Plato,
  • You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.

    Agency   Safety   Purpose  
    "Financial Regulatory Reform: Washington 'Going Stupid' Again?". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2010.
  • . . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.

    Way   Problem   Absence  
  • If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this, we are surely not bound to follow theirs. Let the inspired Scripture, then, be our umpire, and the vote of truth will surely be given to those whose dogmas are found to agree with the Divine words.

    Umpires   May   Scripture  
    Gregory of Nyssa (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Gregory of Nyssa (Annotated Edition)”, p.668, Jazzybee Verlag
  • The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.

    "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
  • The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through divine decree; and seeing the perfection of the Beloved in everything and being content with Him in everything through submission to Him in all things.

    Love   Self   Perfection  
  • Nothing serves life and soundness of body so well, nor is so necessary as the smoke of the royal plant, tobacco.

    Smoking   Body   Royal  
  • At heart, American conservatives like myself are believers in the Constitution. We believe that the principles embodied in the Constitution are enduring, and that to whatever extent we deviate from them we put our liberties at risk. Our views are consistent because we believe in absolute truths and the essential soundness, even righteousness, of the Founder's vision of government.

    Sean Hannity (2009). “Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism”, p.14, Zondervan
  • Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the sky, yes, but I actually believe it.

    Believe   Sky   Pie  
    Source: www.neh.gov
  • From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.

    May   Riches   Talent  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.18
  • It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.

    "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 136, 1949.
  • It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

    Men   Flames   Mind  
  • You will be favourable to Burr, and so must fail because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth, Washington the greatest man that ever lived, Burr the wickedest, and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.

    Country   Love You   Mean  
  • Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now, as we work off some of the past excesses. But the American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system.

    "Five Years Later, Lehman Brothers Fall Still Stings". "All Things Considered" with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.
  • Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

    Men   Two   Knowing  
  • Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.

    Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), James Thomson (gent.) (1766). “The Commentaries of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus. Translated from the Greek, by Mr. Thomson”, p.99
  • Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub
  • As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.

  • In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

    Tusculanarum Disputationum Bk III
  • The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

    Children   Believe   Evil  
  • In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. ... The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  • Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.

  • Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

    Sanity   Economic   Poor  
    John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.270, Princeton University Press
  • The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

    Real   Tests   Belief  
    James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.14
  • The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.

    Real   Different   Tests  
    James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.14
  • The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

    World   Brightness   Next  
    Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.188, Pan Macmillan
  • As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

    Dog   Character   Men  
  • One doesn't diminish a philosopher's achievement, and doesn't undermine its soundness, by showing how the particular set of questions on which he focused, the orientation he brought to bear on his focus, has some causal connection to the circumstances of his life.

  • According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.

    Wise   Ignorance   Issues  
    "Natural Right and History". Book by Leo Strauss, 1953.
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