Multitude Quotes - page 3

Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span. (Bram van Velde)
What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears. View quote
Oswald Spengler
The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time - not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words. View quote
Diogenes Laërtius
If I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upward into a multitude of techniques and theorems while its root drives into the depths, then it seems to me that the impetus of the root. View quote
Gottlob Frege
I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The demand of the day is for a higher standard and style of Christian life. Every follower of Christ must represent His religion purely, loftily, impressively, before that multitude of "Bible-readers" whose only Bible is the Christian. View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong. View quote
Tryon Edwards
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces. (Henry Ford)
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. View quote
Voltaire
You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government. View quote
Guy de Maupassant
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Plato says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution. View quote
Allan Bloom
Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests. View quote
Paul A. Baran
Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws. View quote
Melissa de la Cruz
The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened. View quote
Nicholas Murray Butler
I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines. View quote
Joanne Harris
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. View quote
Dee Dee Myers
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. (Ezra Stiles)
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. View quote
Matthew Modine
When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy. View quote
Nate Mendel
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder? View quote
Robert Dale Owen
Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes. View quote
Ron Chernow