A Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Character Intellect Length Measured Nose Scope Shape String Tape

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Christian Nestell Bovee
American - Author
February 22, 1820 - January 18, 1904

To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.

Percy Williams Bridgman

When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string tape from one machine, past the heads, and over to the next machine to the supply-reel amp, and have another delay there.

Pauline Oliveros

Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.

Nicole Krauss

In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.

Theodore Roosevelt

Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.

Samuel Smiles

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

Charles Spurgeon

I string sounds together. But to string them I have to remember a bunch of old ones I heard somewhere and then juggle them into a new rhythm and shape.

Frank Loesser

God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

William P. Young

The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.

Edward M. Lerner

The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

Mark Jason Dominus

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

Charles Spurgeon

The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the execution itself. All three stages are governed by the will. The will is rooted in character, and for the man of action character is of more critical importance than intellect. Intellect without will is worthless, will without intellect is dangerous.