Quotes about Proportion
The Creator never singles out an individual for an important service to mankind without first testing him, through struggle, in proportion to the nature of the service he is to render.
- Napoleon Hill
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
- Thomas Jefferson
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
- Mark Twain
The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.
- Victor Hugo
A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.
- Marcus Aurelius
The life also which here we live hath its own enchantment, through a certain proportion of its own, and a correspondence with all things beautiful here below.
- St. Augustine
The natural remedy is to be found in the proportion which the night bears to the day.
- Henry David Thoreau
We still haven't seen any cars take advantage of the electric powertrain in terms of how you proportion an electric vehicle versus traditional vehicles. Yes there's electric cars, but they haven't really done it in a beautiful way.
- Henrik Fisker
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.
- Marcus Aurelius
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
- Aristotle
The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous." (VII)
- Aristotle