Latter famous quotes

When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. I’ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift.
-- Anita Moorjani

#Letting Go #Latter #Wanted

Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?
-- Arthur Nersesian

#Fun #Live Life #Latter

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
-- Barbara Mertz

#Writing #Habit #Latter

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Men #Republican #Latter

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.
-- Brigham Young

#Saint #Earth #Latter

Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to be connected at the present day by intermediate gradations whereas species were formerly thus connected.
-- Charles Darwin

#Belief #Latter #Distinction

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce

#Determined #Latter #Former

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
-- Criss Jami

#Ignorance #Intelligent #Latter

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.
-- David Bentley Hart

#Philosophy #Latter #Method

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
-- Democritus

#Education #Men #Latter

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
-- Fredrik Bajer

#Balance #Pleasure #Latter

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.
-- George Eliot

#Facts #Latter #Former

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.
-- Harriet Martineau

#Organization #Latter #Origin Of Species

No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves
-- Heber J. Grant

#Saint #Earth #Latter

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
-- Henri Poincare

#Errors #Produce #Latter

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
-- James J. Gibson

#Believe #Mean #Latter

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.
-- Jared Diamond

#Government #Religion #Latter

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.
-- John Angell James

#Holiness #Latter #Enjoy

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset

#Environment #Surroundings #Latter

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
-- Lionel Shriver

#Country #Fame #Latter

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.
-- Martin Heidegger

#Latter #Former #Determine

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
-- Minna Antrim

#Compliment #Latter

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Men #Enemy #Latter

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)
-- Paulo Coelho

#Teacher #Differences #Latter

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
-- Plutarch

#Book #Latter #Aim

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.
-- Rene Thom

#Math #Latter #Rigour

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Age #Latter #Former

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
-- Thomas Jefferson

#Government #Latter #Newspapers

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
-- Tony Horwitz

#People #Intimacy #Latter

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man
-- William Graham Sumner

#Men #Forgotten #Latter

You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.
-- Charlie Ergen

#One Day #Latter #I Don't Trust You

I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.
-- Elliott Sober

#Biology #Latter #Theism

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.
-- Ernest Sosa

#Understanding #Latter #Justification

If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.
-- Gail Fine

#Philosophy #Focus #Latter

The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.
-- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

#Class #Differences #Latter

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration
-- Helmut Schmid

#Extravagance #Latter #Exaggeration

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.
-- Jason Diamond

#People #Want #Latter

You can be fearful or fearless...I chose the latter
-- Robin Roberts

#Fearless #Latter #Fearful