Consists Quotes

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.