Extent Quotes

1219 Extent quotes by 962 unique authors

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at… — Plato
Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard)… — C.S. Lewis
We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality. — Heinz Guderian
The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and… — Edgar Schein
School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of House members and… — Walter E. Williams
Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised… — Malcolm Muggeridge
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the… — Hans Eysenck
Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent. — Kenneth H. Cooper
Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him. — E. W. Howe
Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy. — Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are… — Frederick William Faber
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear. — B.F. Skinner
I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Companies that actually survive and flourish are going to change their business model from production to aggregating the networks and the network services and solutions.… — Jeremy Rifkin
To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it… — Marcel Proust
When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss. — Mark Twain
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of… — Allan Bloom
A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and,… — Malcolm X
One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says. — Gore Vidal
At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness. — Erica Jong
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
All politicians are to some extent salesmen. — George Will
A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored. — Juvenal

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