Constitute Quotes

277 quotes by 244 authors

Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our… — Dalai Lama
The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal… — Zadie Smith
At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction and the favorable… — Mao Zedong
If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the… — John Bates Clark
With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmonies, actions… — Charles Scott Sherrington
A few suits of clothes, some money in the bank, and a new kind of fear constitute the main differences between the average American today… — Philip Wylie
When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest threat… — E.C. Riegel
There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as much… — David O. McKay
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the… — Olympia Brown
Facts do not constitute truth, — Werner Herzog
Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise… — Neal A. Maxwell
That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among… — Mikhail Bakunin
...Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each noxious… — Rene Dubos
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the… — Richard Wilbur
My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future. — Emile M. Cioran
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition… — Henry James
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to… — Antoine Lavoisier
The Master Mind principle: Two or more people actively engaged in the pursuit of a definite purpose with a positive mental attitude, constitute an unbeatable… — Napoleon Hill
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.… — Will Durant
The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by… — Grover Cleveland

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