Consist Quotes

317 Consist quotes by 250 unique authors

When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true… — Zhuangzi
Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is. — P.J. O'Rourke
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence. — David Hume
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence. — Soren Kierkegaard
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of… — Maimonides
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. — Gustave Courbet
Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections. — Brent Scowcroft
It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the… — Alfred Marshall
Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them… — Alfred Marshall
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude...… — Adolf Hitler
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members,… — Charles Hodge
The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the… — Mary Douglas
Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body,… — Carl Rogers
So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and… — Jack Kingston
Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands. — Jonas Mekas
On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of… — Eckhart Tolle
The Word says, â€˜Love not the world, neither the things that are in the worldâ€™ (1 John 2:15). Jesus warned, â€˜Beware of covetousness: for a… — David Wilkerson

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