Proportion Quotes - Page 5

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.

Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.

The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled.

When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each

Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.

We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to strengthen the Church.

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.

I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.