Than Quotes

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.