T Quotes
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“The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.”
Source: Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books
“The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.”
“The greater a speech, the longer it can be. The longer a speech, the greater it ought to be.”
“The greater a woman's difficulty in reaching orgasm, the more likely she is to be concerned about the lack of dependability of love objects. She is concerned about how transitory relationships are and how easily loved ones can be lost.”
“The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.”
Source: Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions
“The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.”
Source: Essays and Reviews
“The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.”
“The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.”
Source: A call to prayer
“The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.”
“The greater danger for most of us is not
that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it."
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“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
“The greater danger isn’t that believers—men and women alike—go too far with God. It’s that we don’t go far enough. Too often, we shrink back from the fullness of our calling or inheritance—not because God said “Stop,” but because we chose to obey human voices over the voice of God.”
Source: Scripture Girl: Thousands of Memory Verses, One Transformed Life—A Scripture Memory Testimony
“The greater, darker, unforeseen consequences of privatisation are its corrupting effect on social fairness and opportunity more broadly. Corporations that acquire state assets depend on the election of governments with policies that will feed their business, rather than diminish it. It is in the interest of corporateions that are paid to supply sub-contracted services to government projects, for example, to lobby hard against political parties mooting a return to better-paid, more secure, direct employment models. ... A powerful incentive to corruption, hard and soft, exists in the dynamics of these economic and political relationships. Big corporations have a direct interest in politics and the political system; their political donations rewared those who promise them favourable conditions, and neither the community benefit nor the national interest comes into it. (p.69-70)”
Source: On Fairness
“The greater, darker, unforeseen consequences of privatisation are its corrupting effect on social fairness and opportunity more broadly. Corporations that acquire state assets depend on the election of governments with policies that will feed their business, rather than diminish it. It is in the interest of corporations that are paid to supply sub-contracted services to government projects, for example, to lobby hard against political parties mooting a return to better-paid, more secure, direct employment models. ... A powerful incentive to corruption, hard and soft, exists in the dynamics of these economic and political relationships. Big corporations have a direct interest in politics and the political system; their political donations reward those who promise them favourable conditions, and neither the community benefit nor the national interest comes into it.”
Source: On Fairness
“The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.”
Source: Ethics
“The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the sin?”
“The greater good’ is the cream cheese icing on a crap cake — spread thick by those wielding the spatula as a weapon to hide the stench beneath. Many will take a bite, only realizing too late what they’re being fed.”
“The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.”
“The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.”
“The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.”
Source: Killosophy
“The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.”
Source: The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century
“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
“The greater is our sphere of influence, the greater the responsibility.”
“The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.”
Source: The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley
“The greater man the greater courtesy.”
“The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time.”
“the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“The greater number of different lives he has lived, the more aloof he can be from them. The time comes when he must die to the stage and for the world.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.”
“The greater one's purity, the more clearly one sees how much one sins; and the more one sins, the more benighted one is, even though one may appear to be pure. Again, the more knowledge one has, the more one thinks oneself ignorant; and the more one is ignorant of one's ignorance and of the shortcomings in one's spiritual knowledge, the more one thinks one knows. The more the spiritual contestant endures afflictions, the more he will defeat the enemy; and, lastly, the more one tries for one day to do something good, the more one is a debtor all the days of one's life, as St Mark has said; for even if the ability and desire to do good are one's own the grace to do it comes from God. It is only because of this grace that we are able to do anything good; when we do it, then, what have we to boast about?”
“The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.”
“The greater our ability to cry, the greater our ability to laugh.”
“The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.”
“The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.”
“The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”
“The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.”
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.”
Source: The treasury of David: containing an original exposition of the Book of psalms
“The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.”
Source: Philosophic Nights in Paris
“The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.”
“The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.”
“The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity
“The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.”
“The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.”
Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man
“The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.”
“The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.”
“The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed after this war, which spends in one month more than nations earned before in yearsthere is no more security in our time than in those of the Reformation or the fall of Rome.”
“The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.”
Source: The Crowd