Top 100 Quotes About Consists
#1. Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.
Baruch Spinoza
#2. The body consists of three parts: the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain. The borax contains the heart and lungs and the abominable cavity contains the bowels of which there are five: a, e, i, o, u.
Tom Magliozzi
#3. Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment - the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
Jorge Luis Borges
#5. If within wood hide flame and smoke and ash then wood consists of things unlike itself.
Titus Lucretius Carus
#6. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce
#7. Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.
Therese De Lisieux
#8. Salesmanship consists of transferring a conviction by a seller to a buyer.
Paul G. Hoffman
#9. Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
Johannes Tauler
#10. We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
#11. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
#12. Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
Ayya Khema
#13. There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.
Bengt I. Samuelsson
#14. Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
Fernando Pessoa
#15. The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
Sydney J. Harris
#16. This sentence consists of eleven words, twenty-three syllables and seventy-four letters.
Charles Pearson
#17. The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.
Gustave Flaubert
#18. The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points
his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.
Thomas Paine
#19. When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes
many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy.
It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money.
War is our century's prostitution.
T. S. Eliot
#20. Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
Isaac Newton
#21. Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.
Ashley Montagu
#22. The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
Henry Charles Carey
#23. Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerable many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. It is in the perfect union of two hearts that complete and total marriage consists.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#25. Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.
Pope John Paul II
#26. The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
Walter Ulbricht
#27. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness; ... and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
Robert Browning
#28. Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache ... whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
George Orwell
#29. The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
Woodrow Wilson
#30. Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.
Ernest Rutherford
#31. Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.
Bertrand Russell
#32. Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Jean Anouilh
#33. The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
Aristotle.
#34. The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?
D.T. Suzuki
#35. The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
Martin Seligman
#36. Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.
Emile Durkheim
#37. The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
Aldous Huxley
#38. English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off ... Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.
Dave Barry
#39. Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to advance is to fall back since man never remains in the same condition.
Vincent De Paul
#40. The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.
Sebastian Junger
#41. The Gospels: God's perfection consists in non-intervention.
Simone Weil
#42. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
#43. The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
Thomas Paine
#44. The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.
Neal Stephenson
#45. But the trouble is that what we call "asking God's forgiveness" very often really consists in asking God to accept our excuses.
C.S. Lewis
#46. Civilisation consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result. And the false name joined to the true dream does create a new reality. The object does change into something else, because we make it change. We manufacture realities.
Fernando Pessoa
#47. Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Pope John Paul II
#48. The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
Thomas Paine
#50. Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
George Santayana
#52. My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.
Kevin Spacey
#53. The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the Creator and Redeemer.
John Calvin
#55. Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.
Saint Francis De Sales
#56. I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#57. How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an 'active laziness'?
It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#58. A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
Walker Percy
#59. The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudice.
Albert Einstein
#60. Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
Meister Eckhart
#61. Personal tranquility consists in the orderly structuring of the mind, which occurs whenever a person engages in the exquisite practice of contemplating personal experiences, harmonizing time spent with other people, reading great books, and working on self-improvement.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#62. True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.
David Wilkerson
#63. The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to get what you want; and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want.
Wallace D. Wattles
#64. Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
Mikhail Bakunin
#65. Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.
Michael Jackson
#66. The store of wisdom does not consist
of hard coins which keep their shape
as they pass from hand to hand;
it consists of ideas and doctrines
whose meanings change
with the minds that entertain them.
John Plamenatz
#67. All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
Immanuel Kant
#68. The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. The only adventure that is doomed from the start is the one we do not attempt.
Paul-Emile Victor
#69. True beauty after all consists in purity of heart. With
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
J. Paul Getty
#72. They had much discussion upon the question whether marriage was a prejudice or a crime, and whether men were born equal or not, and precisely what individuality consists in. Things
Ivan Turgenev
#73. The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.
Samuel
#74. Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
Stanley Kubrick
#75. The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#76. Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#77. Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#78. Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.
Thomas Clifford Allbutt
#79. True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything to the present.
Albert Camus
#80. Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Woodrow Wilson
#81. My family consists of everyone I love dearly and not just the people who are related to me.
Steven Aitchison
#82. Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.
H.L. Mencken
#83. Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.
Gina Greenlee
#84. True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.
Buddhadasa
#85. The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#86. Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin ... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings; be able to say, at its most secret actings, 'This is your old way and course; I know what you aim at.'
John Owen
#87. Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
Leo Strauss
#88. The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one's own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.
Hannah Arendt
#89. The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Henry Hazlitt
#90. The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
Alfred North Whitehead
#91. For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.
Stephen King
#92. In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
Herbert Spencer
#93. Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations are carried out, instead of being numbers, are geometric entities which we shall define.
Giuseppe Peano
#95. The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.
Rene Descartes
#96. Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
Albert Schweitzer
#97. A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.
Jack Benny
#98. The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp
#100. For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
Josiah Royce
