The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ. — David Platt Copy Share Image
A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority. — Alf Landon Copy Share Image
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing. — Patrick Caddell Copy Share Image
Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside. — Zero Mostel Copy Share Image
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing,… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled… — William Broad Copy Share Image
It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience… — William James Copy Share Image
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of… — Theo Jansen Copy Share Image
The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom… The subjection of individuals… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
People ask why I do monochromatic clothes; the reason is because I'm thinking in proportion to the world. In this room, your… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal;… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
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