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Length Of Life Quotes

Width of life is more important than length of life.

Width of life is more important than length of life.

Avicenna
Length Of Life, Important, Life Is

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

Ptolemy
Leadership, Length Of Life, Events
Ptolemy, Frank Egleston Robbins (1940). “Tetrabiblos”, Loeb Classical Library

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Rose Kennedy
Children, Length Of Life, Political

No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience, as well as of his studiousness and zeal. He knew mathematics and perspective, and there was nothing which he was unable to know; and at the same time he was sufficiently acquainted with languages to be able to understand the saints and the philosophers and the wise men of antiquity but his knowledge of languages was not such as to enable him to effect translations until the latter portion of his life.

Roger Bacon
Wise, Men, Length Of Life
"Opus Tertium". Book by Roger Bacon, p. 91, 1267.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Karl Marx
Philosophical, Health, Length Of Life
Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

Alfred North Whitehead
Past, Length Of Life, Progress
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

William Godwin
Length Of Life, Doctrine, Statistics

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

Leo Tolstoy
Inspirational, Length Of Life, Soul
"A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, 1903 - 1910.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Edwin Way Teale
Length Of Life, Space, Birth
Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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