Yardstick Quotes - page 2

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility. (Karl Lehmann)
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. View quote
Lennart Meri
The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition. View quote
George Soros
My yardstick is how somebody treats me. View quote
Truman Capote
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals. View quote
Jimmy Swaggart
Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth. View quote
Tamora Pierce
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement. View quote
Fausto Cercignani
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. View quote
Joseph Brodsky
The way is infinitely long, nothing of it can be subtracted, nothing can be added, and yet everyone applies his own childish yardstick to it. View quote
Franz Kafka
Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real. Your body sunk into that chair in the approach to midnight, a clock ticking at the threshold of awareness. All the endless detail of a solid and material world surrounding you. These things exist. They can be measured with a yardstick, a voltammeter, a weighing scale. These things are real. View quote
Alan Moore
Paradine poured himself a stiff shot of whiskey. "That's pretty awful. You're not limiting to math." "Right! I'm not limiting it at all. How can I? I'm not conditioned to x logic." "There's the answer," Jane said, with a sigh of relief. "Who is? It'd take such a person to make the sort of toys you apparently think these are." Holloway nodded, his eyes, behind the thick lenses, blinking. "Such people may exist." "Where?" "They might prefer to keep hidden." "Supermen?" "I wish I knew. You see, Paradine, we've got yardstick trouble again. By our standards these people might seem super-doopers in certain respects. In others they might seem moronic. It's not a quantitative difference; it's qualitative. They think different. And I'm sure we can do things they can't." "Maybe they wouldn't want to," Jane said. (Lewis Padgett)
...If we had the time we should now go on to present the ingenious theory of organism with which Spinoza focused the general ontological scheme specifically on the biological sphere, where mentality is ordinarily seen to be conjoined to physical fact, and particularly on the case of man. It must be enough to say that Spinoza makes it beautifully intelligible from his general premises that the quality and power of a mind are proportionate to the complexity of the body to which it corresponds, so that the perfection of the human body as a piece of physical organization is a direct yardstick for the perfection of the human mind which, as it were, conformally (or: isomorphously) duplicates the body's physical performance on the plane of thought. View quote
Baruch Spinoza