Than Quotes
17300 Than quotes by 8648 unique authors
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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
— Humphry Davy
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
— John Wooden
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For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the…
— Gary Neville
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
— Philip Roth
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
— Thomas Hobbes
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
— J. William Fulbright
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
— Samuel Beckett
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My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved,…
— Gary Bettman
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Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with…
— Mike Weir
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
— Charles Kingsley
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
— S I Hayakawa
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A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
— Jules Renard
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Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise
— Hans Selye
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I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
— Mark Tobey
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I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to…
— Robert Winston
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Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
— Unknown Author
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
— Seneca the Elder
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I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
— Martin Short
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
— Artur Schnabel
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I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Silence is more musical than any song.
— Christina Rossetti
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I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat…
— James F. Cooper
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The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.
— Charley Reese
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