Than Quotes

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.

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.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.