Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
James M. Barrie

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
Ken Kesey

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
Marshall McLuhan

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
John Stuart Mill

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
Isadora Duncan

The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.
Bob Newhart

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
Fiona Apple

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
Antisthenes

I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. there must be some scum.
A. P. Herbert

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch Spinoza

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
Steven Biko

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.
Alvin Toffler

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.
Corazon Aquino

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Anatole France