Inverse Quotes

Inverse Quote of the day

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used.

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.

The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.

You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .

There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for the hills, because I'm getting ready to take out bystanders.

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!

I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.

Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?

There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.

Those who cannot have your love, will gladly accept your hatred.

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

In the average, want overcomes reason. In the magnificent, reason is the want.