Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion… — Sissela Bok
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. — William Hazlitt
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by… — Samuel Johnson
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. — Charles Caleb Colton
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions. — Dean Koontz
A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of… — Kobe Bryant
People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me. — Wilt Chamberlain
I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport… — Julius Erving
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply… — Anais Nin
It is only in proportion as the Christian manifests the fruit of a genuine conversion that he is entitled to regard himself and be regarded… — Arthur W. Pink
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine. — William Lloyd Garrison
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most… — John Quincy Adams
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life… — Plutarch

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