Greater Number Quotes

21 Greater Number quotes by 20 unique authors

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man… — Blaise Pascal
A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it… — Thomas Carlyle
History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their… — Friedrich Nietzsche
For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs. — Marie-Luise Gothein
The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be… — John Stuart Mill
Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard. — Edwin A. Abbott
He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must immediately… — David Hume
Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be… — Ambrose Bierce
When it’s all said and done I would like to look back and think that I help to make modelling a possibility for a greater… — Alek Wek
Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer… — Socrates
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to… — Ambrose Bierce
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever… — John Calvin
The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not… — J. B. Jackson
It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the ages, be collected… — Charles Lyell
Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be… — Thomas Browne
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery. — Seneca the Younger
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people. — Richard J. Foster
In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave, and he has… — Roger B. Taney
But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the government), and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor… — Samuel Johnson
It is as impossible for an aggregation of finites to comprehend or exhaust one infinite as it is for the greater number of mathematic points… — Robert Boyle

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