Proportion Quotes - Page 23

• We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dark, Doctors, Medicine

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• When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know the evolution of the disease, its duration and gravity in order to predict its course and outcome. Here statistics intervene to guide physicians, by teaching them the proportion of mortal cases, and if observation has also shown that the successful and unsuccessful cases can be recognized by certain signs, then the prognosis is more certain.

  Claude Bernard

  Teaching, Successful, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

  David Platt

  Depth, Christ, Our Relationship

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• The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.

  Fisher Ames

  Stupid, Believe, Patriotic

  Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854). “Works of Fisher Ames: With a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence”, p.45, Burt Franklin

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• In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Powerful, Church, Christ

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• I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle degree of instruction, calculated for the common purposes of life and such as should be desirable for all who were in easy circumstances. And 3d. an ultimate grade for teaching the sciences generally and in their highest degree... The expenses of [the elementary] schools should be borne by the inhabitants of the county, every one in proportion to his general tax-rate. This would throw on wealth the education of the poor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, Teaching, School

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• Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Fun, Real, Blow

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• And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

  John G. Rowland

  Forgiveness, Years, Perspective

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• A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

  Christian Dior

  Dresses, Female, Pieces

  "Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New". Book by Marie France Pochna (p. 170), 1996.

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• In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you. For, as the Lord says, 'A city set on a hill cannot be hid' (Mt. 5:14).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Cities, Hills

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• Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

  Felix Schelling

  Men, Knowing, Purpose

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• No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Years, Two

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.347

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• If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion.

  Virginia Woolf

  Success, Sight, People

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.835, Wordsworth Editions

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• Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

  Auguste Rodin

  Work, Littles, Born

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• Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Attitude, Selfish

  Pope Francis (2017). “Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Material Existence and the Meaning of Life”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

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• A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Depth, Vivid

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2781, Delphi Classics

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• A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

  Khalil Gibran

  Humour

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• As Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

  Maryrose Wood

  Interesting, Waiting, Greek

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• Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

  Earl Nightingale

  Rewards In Life, Rewards, Direct

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• Always make sure your jewelry isn't taking over you or your ensemble and keep everything in proportion to your frame

  Nina Garcia

  Over You, Ensemble, Jewelry

  Nina Garcia (2010). “Nina Garcia's Look Book: What to Wear for Every Occasion”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

  Carole Lombard

  Weather, Laughing, Ego

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• The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Hands, Drawing

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• Take care of yourselves physically. Guard your health carefully. It is one of our greatest blessings. I especially encourage some type of exercise program so you can stay physically fit and physically capable in proportion to the demands on your body.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Exercise, Blessing, Body

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• In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Ambition, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1005, Penguin

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• Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Issues, Decision

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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