Proportion Quotes

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes

A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader.

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and the powers you give it will never affect your security.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.