Sum Quotes

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. (Aristotle)
In three words, I can sum up everything I know about life it goes on. View quote
Robert Frost
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. View quote
Ronald Reagan
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. View quote
Alexandre Dumas
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. View quote
Margaret Mead
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. View quote
Konrad Adenauer
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence Abolition of private property. View quote
Karl Marx
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. View quote
John Ruskin
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out. View quote
Robert Collier
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. View quote
Winston Churchill
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. View quote
Karl Marx
I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour. View quote
Macaulay Culkin
One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners. View quote
Tracy Hickman
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. View quote
Jimmy Wales
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. (Arnold J. Toynbee)
Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars. View quote
Stephen Fry
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. View quote
Paul Valéry
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? View quote
Joan Didion
Jared, allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people. View quote
John Scalzi