Proportion Quotes - Page 14

Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

George Washington

Education, Government, Giving

George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.331

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Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

Henri Matisse

Art, Reality, Resistance

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There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

Richard Dawkins

Believe, Religion, Atheism

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My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Religious, Ideas, Religion

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.44, UPNE

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No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

Lin Yutang

Children, Heart, Compassion

Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an 'informer' psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an 'informer' psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society.

Barry Goldwater

Selfish, Police, Psychology

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It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in the same proportion the frustration will become smaller. A day will come when there will be no expectation; then you will never come across any frustration.

Rajneesh

Frustration, Hands, Expectations

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No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.

James Madison

Religious, Party, Men

"Federalist No. 10". Essay by James Madison, November 22, 1787.

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Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth. Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail. Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost. America, in the assembly of nations, has uniformly spoken among them the language of equal liberty, equal justice, and equal rights.

John Quincy Adams

Sweet, Powerful, Blessed

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In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.

Susan Blackmore

Giving, Brain, Use

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[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study of the laws of heat; and lastly, he demonstrated the nature of water and determined its volumetric composition. Earth, air, fire, and water-each and all came within the range of his observations.

Thomas Edward Thorpe

Science, Fire, Air

Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1894). “Essays in Historical Chemistry”

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A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The crux ... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

William Broad

Science, Missing, Baffled

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Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Marcus Aurelius

Life, Character, Dignity

"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (32), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic.

Gregor Mendel

Science, Average, Individuality

"Experiments on Plant Hybrids" (1865)

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The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is longer; and it is more accurately retained the less the mode of life of the recent forms differs from that of the earlier, and the less the peculiarities of the several embryonic states must be regarded as transferred from a later to an earlier period of life, or as acquired independently.

Fritz Muller

Life, Science, History

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In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the forms and demonstrations of geometry, on the theories and calculations of arithmetic ... In a word, the theory of proportions is for industrial teaching, what algebra is for the most elevated mathematical teaching.

Jean-Victor Poncelet

Success, Teaching, Science

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One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Spiritual, Distance, Self

Emanuel Swedenborg (1962). “The Gist of Swedenborg”, p.91, Library of Alexandria

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The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.

Sally Miller Gearhart

Hate, Men, Race

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Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people, Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions

Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

Ambition, People, Soul

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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Commitment, Ideas, Discipline

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done not to excess, but 'little by little', paulatim. For nature is pained by surfeit but rejoices in moderation. Whence also those who take drugs and antidotes constantly, or to the point of saturation, are sorely vexed, for every immoderation brings not health but danger.

Isidore of Seville

Health, Names, Medicine

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I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

Johannes Kepler

God, Believe, Ideas

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Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

Al-Ghazali

Wisdom, Islamic, Afterlife

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What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

Oprah Winfrey

Happiness, Laughter, Truth

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It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.

Hugh Mackay

Leadership, Strong, Australia

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