Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to… — Fabiola Gianotti
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as… — William Ellery Channing
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. — Ambrose Bierce
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. Northcote Parkinson
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I… — Tom Hopkins
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion… — Nigel Short
I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out… — Andrew Morton
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than… — Peter Cooper
In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a… — Joseph Hume
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may… — Joseph Lancaster
We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give. — James Cash Penney
Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion. — Jim Fowler
Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain… — Linda Chavez
Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion. — Vitruvius
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish… — William Graham Sumner
No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated… — Timothy Garton Ash
I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes… — Jonathan Dimbleby
Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the… — Isaac D'Israeli
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. — Isaac Mayer Wise

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