Consists Quotes

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.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.