Consist Quotes

317 Consist quotes by 250 unique authors

That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on… — Charles Scott Sherrington
All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever… — Mark Twain
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long… — Oliver Goldsmith
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,… — Hannah More
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena. — Albertus Magnus
The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably. — Hayley Atwell
To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything… — Henry David Thoreau
A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as… — C.S. Lewis
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. — Thomas Fuller
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out… — Emma Goldman
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie. — Desiderius Erasmus
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change… — Alexander Hamilton
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. — Aldous Huxley
The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what… — Michio Kaku
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct… — William Law
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. — Karl Marx
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form… — Charles Morgan

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