"The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole."
Whole quotes
Whole
796 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Whole
Browse quotes that often appear alongside whole — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Whole quotes (page 4 of 40)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly."
"Half a calamity is better than a whole one."
"Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing."
"Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing."
"Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken."
"An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole."
"This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space."
"Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth."
"We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves."
"If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed"
"Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart."
"I don't really like the whole pancake look."
"The true is the whole."
"You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums... You only notice the guitar when it's not there."
"You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life."
"Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him."
"I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality."
"I've been myself my whole life."
"We broke the world to make it whole."