Best Greatest Number Quotes
52 Greatest Number quotes by 44 unique authors
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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all…
— Aristotle
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The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest…
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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Of all many-sided subjects, [education] is the one which has the greatest number of sides.
— John Stuart Mill
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Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.
— Henri Poincare
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How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite…
— Walter Pater
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Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the…
— Gifford Pinchot
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The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.
— Gifford Pinchot
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But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or…
— Albert Einstein
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Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free…
— Mary Matalin
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But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to…
— Moby
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
— John Ruskin
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
— John Ruskin
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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail,…
— Adam Smith
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those…
— Aristotle
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The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
— William Dean Howells
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To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself…
— Charles Eames
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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
— Jeremy Bentham
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It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
— Jeremy Bentham
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to…
— Abraham Verghese
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That action is best which provides the greatest happiness for the greatest number
— Francis Hutcheson
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