Than Quotes

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

I love you more than my own skin.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?