Length Of Life Quotes

• You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Ocean, Sea

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Soul, Sublime

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, 1903 - 1910.

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• Width of life is more important than length of life.

  Avicenna

  Important, Life Is, Width

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• 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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• How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Space, Birth, Length

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

  Rose Kennedy

  Children, Political, Inspire

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• Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Past, Progress, Faces

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

  Ptolemy

  Leadership, Events, Inquiry

  Ptolemy, Frank Egleston Robbins (1940). “Tetrabiblos”, Loeb Classical Library

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• The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.

  David Elkind

  Children, Writing, Ideas

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• No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience, as well as of his studiousness and zeal. He knew mathematics and perspective, and there was nothing which he was unable to know; and at the same time he was sufficiently acquainted with languages to be able to understand the saints and the philosophers and the wise men of antiquity but his knowledge of languages was not such as to enable him to effect translations until the latter portion of his life.

  Roger Bacon

  Wise, Men, Perspective

  "Opus Tertium". Book by Roger Bacon, p. 91, 1267.

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• Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have increased the standards of living and comfort. They have eliminated infinite drudgery. They have increased leisure. But that gives more time for devilment. The work of science has eliminated much disease and suffering. It has increased the length of life. That, together with increase in productivity, has resulted in vastly increased populations. Also it increased the number of people engaged in devilment.

  Herbert Hoover

  Life, Science, Animal

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• Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length of life the least of nature's gifts and is able to bear any kind of sufferings, knows neither wrath nor desire and believes the woes and hard labors of Hercules better than the loves and feasts and downy cushions of Sardanapalus. Reveal what you are able to give yourself; the only path to a life of tranquility lies through virtue.

  Juvenal

  Prayer, Lying, Believe

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• Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

  William Godwin

  Doctrine, Statistics, Chance

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• It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life.

  G. H. Hardy

  War, Science, Average

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.152, Cambridge University Press

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• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Health, Reckless

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

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