Consist Quotes

317 Consist quotes by 250 unique authors

The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly… — Ambrose Bierce
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better. — Georges Braque
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county,… — Thomas Jefferson
The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing',… — Carl Jung
The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience… — Jacques Maritain
I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view. — Richard Mourdock
Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness… — Charles Hodge
Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time. — Robert Grudin
Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if we modify it a little and put some… — Doug E. Fresh
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we… — Gautama Buddha
The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at… — Charles Macomb Flandrau
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. — Aristotle
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. — Athenaeus
Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to… — George Berkeley
A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the… — Muhammad
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? — Lewis H. Lapham
Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it… — John Ruskin
Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light… — Neal A. Maxwell
True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected. — Paulo Coelho
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. — Vittorio Alfieri
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting. — Woodrow Wilson
The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the… — Walter Scott
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and… — George Orwell

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