Extent Quotes - page 2

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. (Bertrand Russell)
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. View quote
Plutarch
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. View quote
Confucius
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. View quote
Lewis Mumford
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research. View quote
Paul Dirac
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent to which this experience comes to rest with the things as they appear and happen to be, it is a limited and even false experience. It attains its truth if it has freed itself from the deceptive objectivity which conceals the factors behind the facts - that is, if it understands its world as a historical universe, in which the established facts are the work of the historical practice of man. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality. View quote
Heinz Guderian
Of this voyage, I observe,' says the Admiral, 'that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened. View quote
Christopher Columbus
For my part, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. (Alexander the Great)
One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly disco. View quote
Albert Einstein
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. View quote
Martha Beck
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war. View quote
Franklin Pierce
Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. View quote
Lawrence Wright
The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent. View quote
Renny Harlin
As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you. View quote
Skeet Ulrich
I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did. (Terri Windling)
In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent. View quote
Victor Francis Hess
Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it. View quote
José Martí
A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat. View quote
Rollo May
Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. View quote
Thomas Jefferson