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Someone's intelligence can be measured by the quantity of...

Someone's intelligence can be measured by the quantity of uncertainties taht he can bear.

Quote by Immanuel Kant about intelligence

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about quality, present, americans, state, perfection, day, world

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about democracy, quality

I consider it top priority to improve water quality and...

I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.

Quote by Joe Baca about water, quality

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Quote by Charles Dickens about honesty, idea, bad luck, bad, man, day, contentment, face

The most ancient anchors are laid to have been of stone, ...

The most ancient anchors are laid to have been of stone, and sometimes of wood, to which a great quantity of lead was usually fixed.

Quote by William Falconer about old

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer...

Quote by William Golding about opinion, old, vice, americans, beauty, character, age, olderness, people

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded

Quote by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz about knowledge, wealth, books, man

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