Golden Mean Quotes

#1. This relationship, often called the Golden mean, has been discovered and rediscovered at various times in history as a unique proportion believed to have both aesthetic and mystic significance. That the Egyptians knew of it and used it seems certain.

John Pile

#2. He, that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door,
Imbitt'ring all his state.

Horace

#3. Nowadays he is best remembered for the Fibonacci sequence of numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 . . .), in which each successive number is the sum of the previous two, and the ratio between a number and its immediate antecedent tends towards a 'golden mean' (around 1.618). It

Niall Ferguson

#4. Moderation He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door Embittering all his state Horace, from Odes, Book II, translated by William Cowper

Daisy Goodwin

#5. There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.

John Calvin

#6. She could not stick by the golden mean ... was always anxious to experiment in extremes ... to find out what was enough by indulging herself in too much. (Gordon Lameyer)

Elizabeth Winder

#7. The Golden Mean was considered a fundamental constant by the Egyptians and the fundamental division of the whole into two parts.

Richard Heath

#8. I don't believe in a golden mean; I don't believe you find policy wisdom between two polar points. I don't dismiss that possibility, but I look at the platform that's so ideologically based, that's so dismissive of facts, of evidence, of science, and it's frankly hard to take seriously.

Thomas E. Mann

#9. Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.

Publilius Syrus

#10. Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.

Stephen M. Barr

#11. Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they are related to the whole structure of the plant through self-similar spirals proportioned by the golden mean.

Jay Kappraff

#12. Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Horace

#13. Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Aristotle.

#14. Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

Rose Macaulay

#15. If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

Lyman Abbott

#16. Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.

Horace

#17. Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

Robertson Davies

#18. Wasn't that the trick, though? Life was one long series of efforts to reach the golden mean, where everything was the way that it was supposed to be.

Seanan McGuire

#19. The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. It is impossible for me to be all sugar one day and spit venom the next. I'd rather choose the golden mean (which is not so golden), keep my thoughts to myself, and try for once to be just as disdainful to them as they are to me. Oh, if only I could!

Anne Frank

#21. We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Schwaller de Lubicz identifies the Golden Mean as "the fundamental scission," or division of one into two, that creates three things - the original whole and two parts, one in golden proportion to the whole and the other in golden proportion to that.

Richard Heath

#23. Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!

Philip Massinger

#24. Loving your work doesn't mean finding a job you can tolerate for eight hours a day, but rather a job that gets you flying out of bed in the morning like a Jack Russell who just had a firecracker stuffed up his ass.

Ari Gold

#25. The golden ratio is a reminder of the relatedness of the created world to the perfection of its source and of its potential future evolution.

Robert Lawlor

#26. That may be. But to decide that I was never going to live as a proper woman was not your choice to make.' 'What do you mean a proper woman?' 'A proper woman marries - she has children -' 'Then what does that make me? Am I not a proper woman? Last time I looked I certainly was.

Jessie Burton

#27. ... just because something had never been done before did not mean it could not be done.

Christie Golden

#28. I want to find my golden joy," I said.
The baron laughed loudly. "Splendid," he said. "But what does that mean to you
your golden joy?"
"The golden joy," I replied, "is when a peculiar flight of free thought makes it possible to see the beauty of life. Am I making myself clear?

Victor Pelevin

#29. Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

Henry David Thoreau

#30. Life that winter in Rome: a golden dream, and I don't mean Rafaello and the mimosa and the total freedom of life. Stop there: What I do mean is the total freedom of life and Rafaello and the mimosa and the letto matrimoniale and the Frascati when morning work was over.

Tennessee Williams

#31. You may ask, why not simply call this literature Christian? Unfortunately, the word Christian is no longer reliable. It has come to mean anyone with a golden heart. And a golden heart would be a positive interference in the writing of fiction.

Flannery O'Connor

#32. Adrian!You Used compulsion on that guy. That ... I mean, it's ... "
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Richelle Mead

#33. Perspective taking is taking on the perspective of others. It's what we do anytime we buy a gift for someone else ("What would they like?"). So it means breaking the golden rule ("Treat others the way you want to be treated") and instead, acknowledges that others may not want what you want.

David Livermore

#34. A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.

Euclid

#35. Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.

Arthur Golden

#36. If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.

Harry Golden

#37. But, Mameha-san, I don't want kindness!"
"Don't you? I thought we all wanted kindness. Perhaps what you mean is that you want something more than kindness. And that is something you're in no position to ask.

Arthur Golden

#38. Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

Arthur Golden

#39. All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.

Virginia Woolf

#40. Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.So remember if you're untrueAngels up in heaven are looking at you.

Hal David

#41. With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

Lucy Walker

#42. Simple' does not mean 'easy'. I have learned that the things that seem the simplest are often the most powerful of all.

Christie Golden

#43. Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

Ovid

#44. Is she for real?" He paused and reconsidered. "Are you for real? Spells? Magic? I mean, don't get me wrong. I drink blood and control people's minds. But I've never heard of anything like this.

Richelle Mead

#45. Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

T.D. Jakes