Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. — Henry David Thoreau
I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. — Pete Townshend
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price… — Bill Veeck
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. — George Washington
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free… — George Washington
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion. — Max Weber
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. — Daniel Webster
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to… — David Wilkerson
Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and… — George Edward Woodberry
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going… — Carter G. Woodson
It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is… — George MacDonald
It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than… — Adam Smith
The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that,… — E. M. Forster
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them… — Simone Weil
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. — Corrie Ten Boom
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, â€” What is truth?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty… — William Shakespeare
My idea is this, that when you only love a little youâ€™re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesnâ€™t… — Henry James
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept… — Jodi Picoult
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some… — Leonardo da Vinci

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