Substance Quotes

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Morality, Basis

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare

Dream, Shadow, Ambitious

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
Victor Hugo

Beauty, Beautiful, Idea

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God, Him, Universal

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo

Style, Subject, Surface

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke

Power, Justice, Human

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison

Mind, Understand, Said

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

Opinion, Lies, Brings

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
William Hazlitt

Friendship, Friends, After

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
David Bowie

Powerful, Passion, May

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
Henry A. Kissinger

Decision, Decisions, Learn

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
Freddie Mercury

Dead, Worth, Musician

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life, War, Death

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges

Time, Fire, Along

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
Thomas Aquinas

God, Matter, Since

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Les Brown

Life, Dreams, Design

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
Bishop Robert South

Heart, Last, Conscience

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop

Lose, Shadow, Beware

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Franz Kafka

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.
Pat Robertson

Small, Young, Wind

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop

Lose, Shadow, Beware

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, Passion, Doubt

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
Wynton Marsalis

Succeed, Style, Settle

The only substance properly so called is the soul.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
Jessica Savitch

Good, Television, News

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton

Her, Easy, Less

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Miguel de Unamuno

Life, Suffering, Makes

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
Anne Sullivan Macy

Education, Knowledge, Light

Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.
Simon Mainwaring

Power, Hope, Technology

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.
Mohamed ElBaradei

Life, Respect, Important

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