Quotes on Insufficient

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.