Than Quotes

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

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.