Comparatively Few Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

• Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.… — Robertson Davies
• The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs… — Michael Polanyi
• Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes. — Roger McDonald
• Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
• This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. — Patrick Geddes
• To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a… — Aldous Huxley
• To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that… — Pope Leo XIII
• At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged… — Ray Stannard Baker
• Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there. — Gedde Watanabe
• I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or… — Henry Ford
• To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. — Henry Ford
• Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in… — John Wesley Powell
• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of… — Talcott Parsons

Who Wrote These Comparatively Few Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Comparatively Few Quotes as follows:

• 2 Comparatively Few Quotes by Henry Ford
• 1 Comparatively Few Quote by Robertson Davies
• 1 Comparatively Few Quote by Michael Polanyi
• 1 Comparatively Few Quote by Roger McDonald
• 1 Comparatively Few Quote by Edward Charles Titchmarsh
• 1 Comparatively Few Quote by Patrick Geddes
• 1 Comparatively Few Quote by Aldous Huxley
• 1 Comparatively Few Quote by Pope Leo XIII
• 1 Comparatively Few Quote by Ray Stannard Baker
• 1 Comparatively Few Quote by Gedde Watanabe
• 1 Comparatively Few Quote by John Wesley Powell
• 1 Comparatively Few Quote by Talcott Parsons