Greater Quotes

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.