Consist Quotes

317 Consist quotes by 250 unique authors

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it… — Thomas Paine
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very… — Paracelsus
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the… — Steven Pinker
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. — George Bernard Shaw
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. — James Stephens
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your… — Jonathan Swift
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. — Henry David Thoreau
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. — John Updike
For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself. — Paul Weyrich
Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God… — Ellen G. White
People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media… — Howard Rheingold
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through… — Mark Twain
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning… — Viktor E. Frankl
Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of… — C.S. Lewis
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and… — Marcus Aurelius
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood. — Charles Dickens
When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor… — Martin Buber
People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a… — Markus Zusak
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer… — Aristotle
Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or… — Jonathan Edwards
The Lord has told me that the last generation before His final coming will consist of His choicest children since the creation of the earth.… — Chris Heimerdinger

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