Extent

Famous quotes containing the word extent:

“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
—William James (1842–1910)

“He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We are thus able to distinguish thinking as the function which is to a large extent linguistic.”
—Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1934)