Greater

Famous quotes containing the word greater:

“I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of probability, supported by various concurrent circumstances, conspiring in one point, will have much greater weight with me, than human testimony upon oath, or even upon honour; both of which I have frequently seen considerably warped by private views.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.”
—Thomas Reid (1710–1769)

“We love in another’s soul
whatever of ourselves
we can deposit in it;
the greater the deposit,
the greater the love.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)