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Numbers Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
- When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the…
- To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
- Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round…
- Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as…
- There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
- The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
- 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.
- Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; - and…
More Numbers Quotes
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage