Quotes About Proportion

We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

Every man at three years old is half his height

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Convert any common fraction to a decimal fraction by dividing the lower number (denominator) into the upper number (numerator). For example, ¾ = 3 + 4 = 0.75. The result is also known as a proportion. Multiply it by 100 to convert it into a percentage. Recognition

Hence beauty consists in due proportion; for the senses delight in things duly proportioned, as in what is after their own kind---because even sense is a sort of reason, just as is every cognitive faculty. Now since knowledge is by assimilation, and similarity relates to form, beauty properly belongs to the nature of a formal cause.

Reply to Objection 3: The universe, the present creation being supposed, cannot be better, on account of the most beautiful order given to things by God; in which the good of the universe consists. For if any one thing were bettered, the proportion of order would be destroyed; as if one string were stretched more than it ought to be, the melody of the harp would be destroyed.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made

Look at your fingers, how the first joint is longer than the second is longer than the end joint. The ratio is Phi, after the sculptor Phidias. The architecture of you.

Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.

Shredding and slicing, dividing and subdividing, the clocks of Harley Street nibbled at the June day, counselled submission, upheld authority, and pointed out in a chorus the supreme advantages of a sense of proportion, until the mound of time was so far diminished that a commercial clock, suspended above a shop in Oxford Street, announced, genially and fraternally, as if it were a pleasure to Messrs Rigby and Lowndes to give the information gratis, that is was half-past one.

Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was.

Thinking was going on then as now; and thinking after all, is the flesh and blood of life; action seemed to her all out of proportion, as though people came and waved flags in your face.

Gerçek mutluluk, yava? yava?, azar azar gelir ve bu bizim hayata bak?? aç?m?zla do?rudan do?ruya ilgili ve orant?l?d?r.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

The size of the experiment should have been limited in proportion to the risk-adjusted potential of the opportunity.

No alcanzabas el uno sesenta de estatura y con tu voz estentórea, tu seguridad, tu paso marcial opacabas a gente que te sacaba veinte centímetros. Yo era de esos que te rebasaban por una cabeza y aun así te recuerdo mucho más alto que yo. Si le preguntaras a quien te conoció cuál era tu estatura, con seguridad te situarían arriba del uno ochenta. Es extraño cómo una personalidad como la tuya puede cambiar el sentido de las proporciones.

Touchy, no sense of humor, no sense of proportion—that was the matter with them, these new fellows... No sense of proportion. And it was a sense of proportion, above all things, that Brookfield ought to teach

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.