Breadth Quotes

• There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Health, Individual

  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.18, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Life, Education, Math

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 140, p. 194, 1992.

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• The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Height, Determined, Pinnacle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.310, Library of America

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  I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Valentines Day, Cute Boyfriend

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Age, Leaves Of Grass

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Marriage, Sweet Love, Educational

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Genius, Analogies, Fields

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Character, Dark, Blessing

  "Voices of the dead". Book by John Cumming, p.8: The Speaking Dead, 1854.

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• There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Eye, Soul

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.111, Diversion Books

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• Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth, breadth, and erudition. Harper and Metzger's sympathetic engagement with Catholic ecclesiology is challenging and reciprocal. I especially appreciate how the authors emphasize and explore the vital connection between ecclesiology and eschatology, something very beneficial to readers seeking to better appreciate how living the Faith in community today relates to the hope of entering fully into Trinitarian communion in the life to come.

  Carl E. Olson

  Appreciate, Community, Catholic

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• One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth of one's spirit. Everything comes down to faith and conviction. It is what is in one's heart, and the substance of one's actions that count.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Titles, Substance

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• Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. . . . William's book combines real history and fictional constructs to tell a revealing story that makes us reconsider the meaning of familiar concepts.

  Julian Baggini

  Real, Book, Journey

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• Dirk Gently [from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], needs a sidekick, as all good detectives do, and he gets this message from the universe that this guy, Todd Brotzman, played by Elijah Wood, is the guy to help him through this mystery. But of course, that doesn't really explain the breadth of it.

  Samuel Barnett

  Agency, Guy, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Giving, Dimensions

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.70, Anchor

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• I'm reading the Gospels at the moment and I can find no evidence of the kind of Christ people seem to have invented and created. There is no evidence of Christ, meek and mild. I can find Christ the compassionate, the gentle, but I also find a very temperamental, aggressive, passionate and often angry man a lot of the time. We will go for a man with that sort of breadth who is an enormous figure. I do believe Christ lived as a person. I don't think there is any disputing that.

  Franco Zeffirelli

  Reading, Believe, Men

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• What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social structures. With breadth of intellect and balance of wisdom, Smith resets the frame of reflection for the most important discussions of the twenty-first century.

  William B. Hurlbut

  Reflection, Balance, Important

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• What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to be one of the top 10 best-selling plays year after year) is the breadth of characters and personalities on display: in age, race, gender, social status, a true cross section of society when the play was written and also true today in terms of the reality of the humanity on display.

  Chris Hart

  Character, Reality, Race

  Source: blog.roundabouttheatre.org

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• Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

  Xunzi

  Lying, Journey, Hiking

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.186, Stanford University Press

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• Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?

  Keith Olbermann

  Daughter, Apology, Glasses

  "Olbermann Compares Bush White House to Clinton's 'White House in Crisis'" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. October 21, 2005.

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• And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity.

  Kevin Clash

  Children, Creativity, Imagination

  Kevin Clash (2006). “My Life as a Furry Red Monster: What Being Elmo Has Taught Me About Life, Love and Laughing Out Loud”, p.65, Harmony

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• May peace-dreamers And peace-lovers Occupy the length and breadth Of the world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, Dreamer, World

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• Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Heart, Men, Approach

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• The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Jesus, Self, Depth

  Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.300, Aeterna Press

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• I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Work Out, Trying, Depth

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