Definition of Threshold

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Threshold

The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.

Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.

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Threshold Quotations

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Kahlil Gibran

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
Bertrand Russell

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.
Jacques Derrida

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
Alan Kay

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Henry Ellis

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
Frances Wright

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
James Larkin

It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.
Howard Carter

Threshold Translations

threshold in Dutch is drempel, dorpel
threshold in Finnish is kynnys
threshold in French is seuil, bille
threshold in German is Schwelle
threshold in Italian is soglia
threshold in Latin is limen limina
threshold in Portuguese is ponto inicial
threshold in Spanish is emparrillado

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