Greater Quotes

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

There's got to be something greater than us.

I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different.

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product?

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.

Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

There is no greater threat to America than Islam.

Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

I loved my computer; it's a tool. A tool increases your mechanical advantages. It allows you to use your strengths and talents to greater advantage, and that's what tools do, and that's what my computer does for me. It's not my toy, it's my tool.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.