Antonyms: deficient, imperfect
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In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

All things are subject to interpretation; whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects - themselves.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.


Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.


Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.