Sufficient

Famous quotes containing the word sufficient:

“It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Luke, 14:28.