Malala Yousafzai (1997) Pakistani children's education activist
Inauguration of Library of Birmingham, Jan 2013
“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.”
Source: Inherit the Wind
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Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Source: The Alphabet of Grace
“The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.”
Shashi Tharoor (1956) Indian politician, diplomat, author
The Hindu, "Strengthening Indianness ", Sunday, Jan 19, 2003, Available Online http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2003/01/19/stories/2003011900240300.htm <br class="br">2000s
“And the whole [is] greater than the part.”
Καὶ τὸ ὅλον τοῦ μέρους μεῖζον
ἐστιν
Elements, Book I, Common Notion 8 (5 in certain editions)
Cf. Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book Η 1045a 8–10: "… the totality is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the whole is something besides the parts … [πάντων γὰρ ὅσα πλείω μέρη ἔχει καὶ μὴ ἔστιν οἷον σωρὸς τὸ πᾶν]"
Euclid’s Elements
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“A part is greater than the whole;
By hints are mysteries told.”
Lucy Larcom (1824–1893) American teacher, poet, author
Poems (1869), A Strip of Blue (1870)
Context: A part is greater than the whole;
By hints are mysteries told.
The fringes of eternity, —
God's sweeping garment-fold,
In that bright shred of glittering sea,
I reach out for and hold.
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“Man has no greater enemy than himself.”
Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) Italian scholar and poet
I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
As quoted in An Examination of the Advantages of Solitude and of Its Operations (1808) by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
En toutes compagnies il y a plus de folz que de sages, et la plus grande partie surmonte tousjours la meilleure. <br class="br"> Chapter 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=wfRKAQAAIAAJ&q=%22En+toutes+compagnies+il+y+a+plus+de+folz+que+de+sages+et+la+plus+grande+partie+surmonte+tousjours+la+meilleure%22&pg=PA285#v=onepage. <br class="br">Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Pantagruel (1532)