Than Quotes

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.