Consist Quotes

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. (Aristotle)
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. View quote
John Updike
But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. View quote
Thomas Paine
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. View quote
Athenaeus
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. View quote
Vittorio Alfieri
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena. (Albertus Magnus)
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. View quote
Karl Marx
A firm consist of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur. View quote
Ronald Coase
The worst cliques are those which consist of one man. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
All people know the same truth our lives consist of how we choose to distort them. View quote
Woody Allen
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. View quote
Che Guevara
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head. View quote
Mark Twain
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them. View quote
Josh Billings
Mind and matter brought down to the essential, to the consciousness and its object, form a natural whole, and the difficulty does not consist in uniting but in separating them. View quote
Alfred Binet
It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere. View quote
Victor Francis Hess
The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty. (Johann Gottlieb Fichte)
All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities. View quote
Charles Hartshorne
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. View quote
Jean Piaget
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel