Quantity Quotes

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. (Seneca)
To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. View quote
Leonhard Euler
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. View quote
Horace Mann
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. View quote
George Boole
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns. View quote
Tom Waits
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived. View quote
Gregory Bateson
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. View quote
Charles Dickens
The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished. (Hermann von Helmholtz)
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. View quote
Mark Twain
Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Number is different from quantity. View quote
Gregory Bateson
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. View quote
Victor Hugo
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. View quote
Milan Kundera
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years? View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity. View quote
Charles Francis Richter
The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity. View quote
Hugh Shelton
Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset. (Leonard Maltin)
The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence? View quote
Thomas Malthus
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. View quote
William Ellery Channing
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. View quote
Montesquieu