Proportion Quotes

“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.”
― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Proportion is the heart of beauty.”
― Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. "Yes, I see, dear; it's about halfway between," Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility”
― E.M. Forester, Howards End

“The Golden Number is a mathematical definition of a proportional function which all of nature obeys, whether it be a mollusk shell, the leaves of plants, the proportions of the animal body, the human skeleton, or the ages of growth in man.”
― R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Nature Word

“three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“The lessons of history are manifold.

Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences.

We are all part of a larger stream of events, past, present, and future. We are all the beneficiaries of those who went before us--who built the cathedrals, who braved the unknown, who gave of their time and service, and who kept faith in the possibilities of the mind and the human spirit.

An astute observer of old wrote that history is philosophy taught with examples. Harry Truman liked to say that the only new thing in the world is the history you don't know.

From history we learn that sooner is not necessarily better than later ... that what we don't know can often hurt us and badly ... and that there is no such thing as a self-made man or woman.

A sense of history is an antidote to self-pity and self-importance, of which there is too much in our time. To a large degree, history is a lesson in proportions.”
― David McCullough, The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”
― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“The key to dressing with purpose is to understand how to use your personal colors, style, body shape, and proportion to achieve your personal goals and objectives.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“Whenever you take an action,Decide by both your brain and heart in equal proportions .Balance them as far as possible.”
― Bikash Bhandari

“Give yourself the clear advantage of a positive perspective with styles that compliment your best features and colors all in perfect proportion to your body.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“But Proportion has a sister, less smiling, more formidable, a Goddess even now engaged--in the heat and sands of India, the mud and swamp of Africa, the purlieus of London, wherever in short the climate or the devil tempts men to fall from the true belief which is her own--is even now engaged in dashing down shrines, smashing idols, and setting up in their place her own stern countenance. Conversion is her name and she feasts on the wills of the weakly, loving to impress, to impose, adoring her own features stamped on the face of the populace. At Hyde Park Corner on a tub she stands preaching; shrouds herself in white and walks penitentially disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments; offers help, but desires power; smites out of her way roughly the dissentient, or dissatisfied; bestows her blessing on those who, looking upward, catch submissively from her eyes the light of their own. [She] had her dwelling in [his] heart, though concealed, as she mostly is, under some plausible disguise; some venerable name; love, duty, self sacrifice. How he would work--how toil to raise funds, propagate reforms, initiate institutions! But conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“We therefore find that the triangles and rectangles herein described, enclose a large majority of the temples and cathedrals of the Greek and Gothic masters, for we have seen that the rectangle of the Egyptian triangle is a perfect generative medium, its ratio of five in width to eight in length 'encouraging impressions of contrast between horizontal and vertical lines' or spaces; and the same practically may be said of the Pythagorean triangle”
― Samuel Colman, Harmonic Proportion and Form in Nature, Art and Architecture

“The keys to dressing is understanding your personal colors, body shape and proportions.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“Your daily output is directly proportional to your daily thoughts while your activity or passivity remains as a constant. You get what you think to do provided you do it!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Billions of dreams die off every year. I believe yours will not be part of that proportion if only you are ready to shape them!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content of hate mail.”
― Christina Engela, Demonspawn

“Divide the target in proportion to the available resources”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Pulling down statues of rock from their high places
we must level the expectation
upon which they stand
waiting for us
to fulfill their image
waiting
for our feet to replace them.

Unless we refuse to sleep
even one night in houses of marble
the sight of our children's false pleasure
will undo us
for our children have grown
in the shadow of what was
the shape of marble
between their eyes and the sun
but we do not wish to stand
like great marble statues
between our children's eyes
and their sun.”
― Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

“It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“Your success in worldly life (sansar) is in proportion to your faith and truthfulness!”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Trouble always starts when you are out of proportion with who you are talking to.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Bookwanderers

“Prior to implicit healing, our protectors are responding to the magnitude of pain they need to sequester. It is as though they are facing mainly inward to keep track of the suffering there while devoting just enough resources to the outside world to modulate the degree of protection needed according to the emerging moment. That is why our responses can sometimes look wildly out of proportion to those only seeing our outer circumstances. As we heal, there is less need for protection from implicit wounds, so more of our protective resources can be devoted to the needs of the current moment.”
― Bonnie Badenoch

“The key to dressing with purpose is to understand how to use your personal colors, style, body shape, and proportion to achieve your personal goals and objectives.

Clothe yourself with harmonious style and a consistent message.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“Compassion in times and places of confusion is usually a good idea. Frequently, new dervishes will become upset by what they see happening in the apparent world. For example, if their tesbih (Sufi prayer beads) breaks, they take this as a sign that Allah is angry with them. There is no evil that their tesbih broke. What is important is how the dervish mends it or replaces it. Just as that in life, when other "things" break, what is important is our reaction and how we mend or replace them. In addition, assuming that Allah is angry with them, is typical for the new dervish in that new dervishes tend to react in extreme ways. Everything becomes a matter of blown out of proportion. As one matures on the Path, one develops a sense of proportion and perspective, and does not run off as a chicken with its head cut off, when an inconvenience occurs in life.”
― Laurence Galian

“Often the lens needs adjusting, not the landscape”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“For humour involves a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters