Proportion

Famous quotes containing the word proportion:

“Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

“An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)