Quantity Quotes

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain

Mind, Sometimes, Week

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi

Work, God, Quality

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato

Single, Moment, Else

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.
Charles Dickens

Trust, Men, Bad

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Rather, Quality, Matters

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Time, Experience

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
Michelle Obama

Help, Whole, Kids

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If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Emile Zola

Cannot, Quality, Overwhelm

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle

Great, Men, Made

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.
Deepak Chopra

Best, Live, Mind

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
John Ruskin

Good, Women, Men

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
George MacDonald

Work, God, Best

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
Louis L'Amour

Money, Knowledge, Value

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin

Art, After, Simplicity

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Hesiod

Long, Put, Road

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann

Education, Best, Alone

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.
Milan Kundera

Words, Culture, Madness

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.
Irving Babbitt

Sunday, Lazy, Perfect

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
Henry Hazlitt

Money, Power, Put

I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.
Keanu Reeves

Great, Law, Able

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.
Leonhard Euler

Small, Actually, Ask

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Samuel Richardson

Great, Food, Enemy

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.
Irving Babbitt

Today, Saying, Democracy

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Don Marquis

Less, Public, Trouble

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.
Reba McEntire

Family, Time, Special

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
William Ellery Channing

Knowledge, Mind, Quality

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
Jean-Luc Godard

Beauty, Passion, Fashion

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. Naipaul

Wish, Meet, Paris

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
Harlan Coben

Writing, Write, Few

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Jules Renard

Matter, Write, Talent

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