All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Walter Bagehot

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
Julius Erving

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.
David Ricardo

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
Nicolaus Copernicus

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
Orison Swett Marden

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett Marden

We can overcome evil with greater good.
Laura Bush

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.
Tony Campolo

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.
Daniel Goleman

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
Thomas Malthus

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Thomas Malthus

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Chiang Kai-shek

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Honore de Balzac

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Tacitus