Surpassed Quotes

84 quotes by 77 authors

...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of nature. This balance,… — George F. Kennan
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. — Edmond H. Fischer
You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with… — Winston Churchill
The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it disappears when thoughts… — Rajneesh
Who am I? I'm a survivor. I'm a woman with tremendous inner resources and resilience. I care about people. I believe in 'Do unto others… — Jane Fonda
In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the subject.… — Marjory Stephenson
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something… — Edith Hamilton
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables,… — Edith Hamilton
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the… — Mac Thornberry
Pele was the only footballer who surpassed the boundaries of logic. — Osvaldo Ardiles
I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned. — Colin Mochrie
Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage. — Gary Cole
Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated,… — Carl Jung
In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by… — Ada Lovelace
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I… — Antonin Dvorak
Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though… — Glenn Gould
In my own experience I have found that the most extravagant dreams of boyhood have not surpassed the great experience of being in the Will… — Jim Elliot
For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With an average temperature… — William K. Stevens
Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his superb… — William Easterly
Man is something to be surpassed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Who Wrote These Surpassed Quotes

77 authors contributed a total of 84 Surpassed Quotes, led by these top contributors: