Consists Quotes
1176 Consists quotes by 744 unique authors
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A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
— Cornel West
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the…
— H. L. Mencken
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The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.
— Marianne Williamson
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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them…
— Charles Babbage
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Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.
— Peter Medawar
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The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work…
— Thomas Huxley
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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.
— Carl Jung
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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of…
— St. Jerome
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My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays…
— Caroline Knapp
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The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.
— Gustave Le Bon
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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
— Walker Percy
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An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and…
— Samuel
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Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.
— Shakuntala Devi
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No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and…
— Marlene Dumas
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PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.
— Ambrose Bierce
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According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This church will not…
— Wayne Mack
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Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and…
— Helen M. Luke
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The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise...
— Alexis Carrel
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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily…
— Robert Quillen
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
— Walter Ulbricht
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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation.…
— Robert Trout
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