Proportion Quotes

837 quotes by 618 authors

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,… — James Madison
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an… — Barry Goldwater
It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in the same proportion… — Rajneesh
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers… — John Quincy Adams
In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and… — Susan Blackmore
A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The… — William Broad
[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study… — Thomas Edward Thorpe
Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater. — Charles Spurgeon
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. — Marcus Aurelius
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed… — Gregor Mendel
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is… — Fritz Muller
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the… — Jean-Victor Poncelet
One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love. — Emanuel Swedenborg
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear. — Rumi
The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race. — Sally Miller Gearhart
Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people, Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great. — Charles Sturt
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done… — Isidore of Seville
I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects. — Johannes Kepler

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