Than Quotes

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Character is more important than talent.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.