Breadth Quotes

136 quotes by 122 authors

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of… — Henry David Thoreau
The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience. — Alfred Stieglitz
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know… — Douglas Adams
How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to… — Bill Drayton
This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star,… — Henry David Thoreau
I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Christian theology is a hair's breadth away from nihilism. — John Milbank
World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for… — Sri Chinmoy
Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a manâ€™s breadth, with his heart. — Ilya Ehrenburg
The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth,… — Athanasius of Alexandria
I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hairâ€™s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly… — Molly Ivins
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition… — Anthony Braxton
The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor. — Mark Millar
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community,… — Paul Flory
PoincarÃ© [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic… — Eric Temple Bell
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a… — Thomas Chalmers
Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and… — Howard Berman
Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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