Than Quotes

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Rather be dead than cool.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.