Ratios quotes
55 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
"Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be."
"It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings."
"Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio."
"If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear"
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"The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability."
"Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center."
"Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]"
"Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more."
"I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness."
"That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles] ratio thing they grew up with. It's just been that way forever, so they don't see it."
"Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases."
"Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes."
"The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America."
