Top 455 Consist Quotes & Sayings

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have

Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table [the Constitution] gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

I consist of a little body and a soul.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

But then history does not only consist of documents.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking. All of this other thinking, so far as it concerns the outer world, is active in space and time. If it cannot be fitted into space and time, then it fails in its whole aim and one does not know what purpose it really serves.

My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.

Elementary propositions consist of names.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

With my busy schedule, my friends consist of my immediate family and the people I work with!

Goals after football would consist of continuing to build my family.

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

In what do the activities of the Communist Parties consist? In what ways can they manifest themselves? These activities usually consist in the organization of working masses, in organizing meetings, demonstrations, strikes, etc. It is absolutely clear that American Communists cannot perform this in Soviet territory. The American workers are not in the U.S.S.R.

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.