Quotes About Gradation

Nature does not make leaps.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

'Almost' is all about gradations and nuance and about suggestion and shades. Not quite a red wine, but not crimson, not purple either, or maroon; come to think of it, 'almost' Bordeaux.

It is to be hoped, indeed, that LANGUAGE, here as elsewhere, will not get over its awkwardness, and that it will continue to talk of opposites where there are only degrees and many refinements of gradation

To our natural and human reason, I say that these terms 'large,' 'small,' 'immense,' 'minute,' etc. are not absolute but relative; the same thing in comparison with various others may be called at one time 'immense' and at another 'imperceptible.

But if evil is without gradation, and it does exist, this state of evil, then only one sin is needed. Isn't that what you are saying? That God exists and.…' " 'I don't know if God exists,' I said. 'And for all I do know Ã¢â'¬Â¦ He doesn't exist.' " 'Then no sin matters,' he said. 'No sin achieves evil.

As soon as you add an intensifier, you're turning an all-or-none dichotomy into a graduated scale.

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. —HERMAN MELVILLE

Allow there to be a spectrum in all that you see.

Communication is not a yes-or-no but rather a more-or-less affair.

Life is not just black and white, there are a million shades in between.