Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them. — Mortimer Adler
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires. — Bertrand Russell
We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate — Ilya Prigogine
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he… — Lew Wallace
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. — William Wordsworth
Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things… — Lynne Truss
Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little… — Samuel Beckett
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your… — Thomas Merton
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral… — Emily Bronte
You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
My misery is reaching epidemic proportions. — Libba Bray
There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that?… — Ernest Hemingway
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what… — Isaac Newton
As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty… — Michael Palin
As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemiesâ€”but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets… — Booker T. Washington
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing… — John Maynard Keynes
The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial,… — Douglas Adams
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. — Anthony de Mello
Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles… — Ian Caldwell

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