I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is more disgraceful for a king to tell lies than anyone else.”
Source: The Campaigns of Alexander
“It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.”
“It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed.”
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
“It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.”
Source: Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
“It is more helpful to think of dreams as reflections of the present rather than as pictures of the future. A dream of a car out of control, for example, does not indicate that a car accident will occur in the future. It does mean, however, that the dreamer is feeling out of control in his or her life right now. It is important not to be superstitious about dreams.”
“It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.”
“It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.”
Source: Jefferson: Writings
“It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.”
“It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them”
“It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.”
“It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.”
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”
“It is more important that we listen to others than to always be speaking, for in that way we learn what there is to know. We should be easy to talk to, and grateful for new information.”
Source: I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers
“It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe: indeed, if one may say so, we should do nothing else besides.”
“It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.”
“It is more important to be a good person than a good player.”
“It is more important to be free than to be happy.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“It is more important to be instrumental to people than to feel that you are important and give yourself importance. One who is instrumental eventually realizes this fact and focuses on being instrumental to someone in any way and every way possible. Sainthood is servitude, service to humanity, and a serving attitude.”
“It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.”
“It is more important to be of service than successful.”
“It is more important to be pretty as a woman than to be fashionable.”
Source: Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman
“It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.”
Source: The Female Quixote: Easyread Large Edition
“It is more important to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable.”
“It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.”
“It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.”
Source: On Right Livelihood
“It is more important to go slow and gain the lessons you need along the journey then to rush the process and arrive at your destination empty.”
“It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.”
“It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. If there is not complete agreement between the results of one's work and experiment, one should not allow oneself to be too discouraged, because the discrepancy may well be due to minor features that are not properly taken into account and that will get cleared up with further developments of the theory.”
“It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.”
“It is more important to influence people than to impress them.”
“It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.”
“It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.”
“It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.”
“It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius!”
“It is more important to know what to hate than it is to know what to love.”
“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.”
“It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.”
“It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.”
“It is more important to live the life one wishes to live, and to go down with it if necessary, quite contentedly, than to live more profitably but less happily.”
Source: Cross Creek
“It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people think are well drawn”
“It is more important to move on to positive actions without stopping to wallow in anger about injustices -- including the unjust suppression of inventors. Exposing the skeletons in the closet serves to enlighten, but getting off-message with retribution will be counter-productive.”
Source: Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-Leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World
“It is more important to outhink your enemy, than to outfight him”
“It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.”
— Rachel Carson, A sense of wonder”
“It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.”
“It is more important to prove something to yourself than to prove it to others!”
“It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.”
“It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".”