Breadth Quotes

136 quotes by 122 authors

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth. — Blaise Pascal
When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style. — Steve Lawson
Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge… — Anderson Cooper
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. — Stephen Jay Gould
Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the… — Herman Bavinck
A line is length without breadth. — Euclid
May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so… — Paul Cezanne
I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in… — Francine Pascal
The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects… — Rene Descartes
The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in… — Jean-Claude Juncker
Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its… — Craig S. Keener
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view. — Cecil Frank Powell
Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life. — Joseph Girzone
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain… — Paul Klee
I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone… — Gustave Courbet
The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or… — Joshua Reynolds
If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. — Susan Cain
Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not only was he… — Giorgio Vasari
The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss… — Eric Maisel

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