Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Branches or types are characterized by the plan of their structure, Classes, by the manner in which that plan is executed, as… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Supposing the Mother Earth was very hot like the sun, there would have been no growth, or it was cold like moon,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up,… — William Blake Copy Share Image
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about… — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I was a floor model at I. Magnin. I'm 5 feet 7, but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
