"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."
Read quote
7 likes
Quality quotes
Quality
3.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Quality
Browse quotes that often appear alongside quality — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Quality quotes (page 19 of 155)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces."
Read quote
7 likes
"One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees."
Read quote
7 likes
"The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery."
Read quote
7 likes
"Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species."
Read quote
7 likes
"Stieglitz conceived, though he never carried out, a series of photographs of the heads of stallions and mares, of bulls and cows, in the act of mating, hoping to catch in the brute an essential quality that would symbolize the probably unattainable photograph of a passionate human mating."
Read quote
7 likes
"It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending."
Read quote
7 likes
"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."
Read quote
7 likes
"Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?"
Read quote
7 likes
"What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life"
Read quote
7 likes
"What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end."
Read quote
7 likes
"Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low."
Read quote
7 likes
"Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print."
Read quote
7 likes
"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."
Read quote
7 likes
"I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments."
Read quote
7 likes
"The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form."
Read quote
7 likes
"It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting."
Read quote
6 likes
"Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense."
Read quote
6 likes
"Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly."
Read quote
6 likes
"How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream."
Read quote
6 likes