Top 485 Constitute Quotes & Sayings

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

Absence of failure does not constitute success.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

Talents constitute our very essence.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

Criticism does not constitute violence.

The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.

Facts do not constitute truth.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.

Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless.

Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

Social media constitute the most powerful readily accessible communications weapon Hamas has in its arsenal.

To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise.

Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.

Imbodied spirits constitute the mankind. It is not restricted to the earth only but instead it inhabits all the worlds in space.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

To the uninitiated, the Hasidim constitute a rather homogeneous sect of orthodox Jewry, but this is far from being true.

I don't doubt that there are many presidential acts that would constitute obstructions of justice if anyone but the president engaged in them but which constitute legitimate exercises of presidential power when the president engages in them.

Facts, when combined with ideas, constitute the greatest force in the world. They are greater than armaments, greater than finance, greater than science, business and law because they constitute the common denominator of all of them.

At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction and the favorable conditions constitute the secondary aspect. But through their efforts the revolutionaries can overcome the difficulties step by step and open up a favorable new situation, thus a difficult situation yields place to a favorable one.

What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource.

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects.

We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.

Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.