Best greater & gains Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.”

Knows May Ideas Reality Found Principles Knowledge Greater Gains Certainty Reasoning Description Possessed Incomplete Exhibits Analogies

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

“The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.”

“O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.”

Art Care Greater Prove Gains Stronger Greed Take Care Riches Painter Incentives Renown Greater Things

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.”

Believe Pain Faith Fall Loss Doubt Greater Trouble Sorrow Gains Rain Crosses Strive Height Bees Anguish Swarms Hives

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?”

Men Mind Mean Important Character Seems Pleasure Results Opinion Study Greater Gains Valuable Guests Biographies Acquaintance Elevation

Book:Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete

Source: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete

“Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live.”

May Political Loss Greater Wise Atheism Danger Gains Safety Foolish Suppression Political Freedom Gains And Losses

Author:Alexander Meiklejohn

“Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.”

Men Helping Watches Struggle Greater Fate Fool Weakness Gains Advantage Intelligent Fingers Lifts Great Men Bankruptcy Intelligent Man Grocers

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.”

“As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.”

Men Social Women Greater Gains Resources Economics Feminist

Author:Linda Gordon

“Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losses caused by the restrictions imposed are greater or less than the gains derived from the elimination of costly conflict.”

Form Term Loss Greater Particular Conflict Gains Institutions Property Justification Restriction Elimination

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.”

Mind Humans Mean Greater Gains Resources Labor Certainty Rely Proportion Human Mind Deprived Exertion

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“But if you stagnate, the growth is over. I have done many comedy films. Success of films like Partner, Singh is Kinng gets you to a very wide audience reach. But for greater gains, you need to take greater gambles. If it works, you get respect and recognition.”

Ifs Needs Done Film Growth Audience Comedy Greater Gains Wide Partners Recognition Gamble Singh

Author:Katrina Kaif

“It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.”

Love Believe May Mother Found Sin Love Is Greater Failing Humility Daughter Gains Corners Commit Occasions Midst My Daughter Believe In Me Lapses

Book:Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

“One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.”

Humans Shows Loss Study Greater Keys Behavior Elements Gains Enjoyment Academic Human Behavior

Author:Laurence D. Fink

“Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.”

Past Remember Greater Gains Importance Fervor Remembering The Past

Book:Zeno's Conscience

Source: Zeno's Conscience

“I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.”

Thinking Soul Christ Greater Mountain Gains Gold Silver

Author:Matthew Henry

“Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.”

Christian Spirit Jesus Christ Greater Masters Holy Gains Jesus Christ Endure Inevitable Holy Spirit Persecution

Author:Monica Mcgowan Johnson

“There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.”

Men Greater Gains Expenses Dishonesty

Author:Leonard Read

“The God who inspired the Bible is the same God who made the universe, Earth, and all life. This God is the very definition of truth; therefore nature's record will never contradict Scripture and vice versa. When a seeming contradiction confronts us, we can know with certainty we have either misunderstood (one, the other, or both revelations) or perhaps we haven't yet dug deploy enough. Whatever the case, we can embrace the opportunity to gain greater knowledge and appreciation for the Bible, for nature, and for the God who is responsible for both.”

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