Than Quotes

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.