Than Quotes

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.