Strongly

Famous quotes containing the word strongly:

“The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)