Diminished Quotes

239 quotes by 221 authors

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams… — Maya Angelou
Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily,… — Laozi
Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have… — Carl Sagan
Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining… — Judith Viorst
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a… — Henry David Thoreau
Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on… — Alan Cohen
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his… — Robert Aris Willmott
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity… — Bertrand Russell
Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on… — Isaac Newton
It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just… — James Madison
The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip;… — Charles R. Swindoll
In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have… — Pico Iyer
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes… — Rumi
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves. — A. S. J. Tessimond
The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in… — Hermann von Helmholtz
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed. — Niccolo Machiavelli
More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks. — Charles R. Swindoll
When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is… — Madeleine L'Engle
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided. — James Madison

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