Perhaps Less Quotes
16 quotes by 13 authors
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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this climb will be…
— Royal Robbins
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I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged than he ought…
— Werner Erhard
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When other people ask me, 'What gives you the right to suggest standards for others?', my answer is, 'If I don't, someone else, perhaps less…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy and possess you-persons,…
— Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
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One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or…
— Fay Weldon
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The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your…
— Desmond Tutu
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Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
— Eric Hoffer
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Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice…
— Geoff Mulgan
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Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware…
— Elie Wiesel
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It always comes back to our insecurities, as we say, "Oh, I'm not as good as you." So instead of accepting that perhaps I am…
— Desmond Tutu
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Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales meant more than they…
— Erin Morgenstern
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If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue the lives of…
— Noah Worcester
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
— Eric Hoffer
Who Wrote These Perhaps Less Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 16 Perhaps Less Quotes as follows: