The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
Walter Ulbricht

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
Lysander Spooner

The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
Paul Getty

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
Edward Gibbon

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.
Ivan Pavlov

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
Stephane Mallarme

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
Georg Simmel

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Gustav Mahler

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Alfred North Whitehead

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
Gustav Heinemann

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
Charles de Montesquieu

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
Thomas Mann

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Pope John XXIII

The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
Jonathan Shipley

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
Claude Bernard