The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam Smith

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
Will Rogers

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
Soren Kierkegaard

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
James Madison

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
James Madison

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.
Henny Youngman

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
Colin Powell

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
Evelyn Waugh

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Robert H. Schuller

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
Andy Rooney

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson

This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.
John Walters

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Rudyard Kipling

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Thomas Malthus