Quotes About Breadth

The population of an inference is thus equivalent to the breadth or scope of an argument.

Our good depends on the quality and breadth of our emotions.

We have largely traded wisdom for information, depth for breadth. We want to microwave maturity.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man's breadth, with his heart.

Though Love be deeper, Friendship is more wide.

Breadth and depth. What the editors want.

This gentleman is known the width and breadth of the comics world as that bastard Klaw.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

As we cannot be universal by knowing everything there is to know about everything, we must know a little about everything, because it is much better to know something about everything than everything about something. Such universality is the finest. It would be still better if we could have both together, but, if a choice must be made, this is the one to choose. The world knows this and does so, for the world is often a good judge.

It is better to know something about everything then everything about something

As we cannot be universal by knowing everything there is to be known about everything, we must know a little about everything, because it is much better to know something about everything than everything about something.

For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former. And the world feels this and does so; for the world is often a good judge.

It is better to know something about everything than to know everything about something.

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?

For me, the best thing is the young actors that come in to the series as to see the depth and breadth of talent coming into the business is fantastic.

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

Scientists tend to come in two stripes: those who have tremendous appetite and aptitude for the details, and those who illuminate the big picture. Sagan was definitely in the latter category, and he was profoundly good at it. He made connections that others did not have the intellectual breadth or courage to make.

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

How harmful overspecialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding.

This flu is like a black shroud that has been flung across everything that breathes under the canopy of heaven, and if you could stand back far enough, you wouldn't see all the people it touches, only the immense length and breadth of its expanse.