Consists Quotes

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.