Grandeur Quote by Thomas Huxley Download Open image “Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.” — Thomas Huxley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grandeur Size Territory
Nobody is bigger than the nation or can be allowed to be larger than life. — Shatrughan Sinha Copy Share Image
A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it. — Pedro Pierluisi Copy Share Image
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Look at the US, look at Russia. Both of these countries are immense geographical territories. But, nowadays, immense territories amount to nothing! — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country. — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
Sure is big country. The only thing bigger is the sky. Looks like God made it and forgot to put people in it. — Dudley Nichols Copy Share Image
We shouldn't consider smaller countries insignificant. I abide by this principle. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We certainly do not regard it as right that the citizens of a large country should dominate those of a small adjoining country merely… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair"… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
