Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The word "necessary" is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want… — Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with… — Thalia Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We had our wheat. We made our own olive oil. We made our wine. We had chickens, ducks; we had sheep, cows,… — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state of subjugation are in no position to be even-handed ...… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
But the plain fact of the matter is that, for any person to successfully lead others, he or she must deal with… — Donald T. Phillips Copy Share Image
One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Pain is surprising; we cannot understand why we have been abandoned in love... why we are unable to sleep at night… Identifying… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything,… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to the kind of faith that does not evangelize or raise banners but is the faith drawn on by… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Across a range of inferences involving not just language but mathematics, logic problems, and spatial reasoning, sleep has been shown to enhance… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Our modern understanding of cultural appropriation is highly individualised. It's all about what Halloween costume you wear, or who's cooking biryani. But… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
“Empathy is defined this way: “the ability to share and understand the feelings of another.” Women talking for hours at a lunch.… — Wendy Walker Copy Share Image
It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The… — Carlos H. Amado Copy Share Image
Gradually, by processing emotion and understanding the psychological action involved, you realize it isn't really complex. It may seem so at first,… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
I have a son and a wife, and I really enjoy my family life as much as I enjoy my career, but… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
“There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Aggression in a dog is similar to aggression in a human. We re both scared of what we don't understand, and our… — Andre Gatling Copy Share Image
A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of… — James Allen Copy Share Image
I have a whole regimen to my day: my vocal warm-ups, my prayers, my meditations... I pray three times a day. I… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,'… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“When people are missing out in their choices and cannot make a distinction between cheery, witty, funny, filthy or scurrilous walks of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Many or few alternatives can be at hand. A wise and skilful choice acts from a sincere effort. Solutions and results come… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
My upbringing was faith-based, but we believed you should love all others as you want to be loved, because everyone should be… — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
