Consists Quotes

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

The core of my personality consists of many selves.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The true art of government consists in not governing too much.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.