Than Quotes

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. 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 blindfolded fear.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.