“Understanding is the reward of obedience. Obedience is the key to every door. I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone… — Kelvin Ogilvie Copy Share Image
It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China -… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
“These few digressions serve as the basis for the easier understanding and acceptance of the Absolute as mind—idea (spirit), knowledge, thought—not only… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc.,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
My favorite track from the album Independent is Hold On. Everyone at some point fights battles or has struggles, and in moments… — Mya Copy Share Image
A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Unless you make yourself equal to God, you cannot understand God: for the like is not intelligible save to the like. Make… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
When you make motion pictures, each picture is a life unto itself. When you finish and the picture is over, there's an… — John Huston Copy Share Image
The process that I want to call scientific is a process that involves the continual apprehension of meaning, the constant appraisal of… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Storytelling is very important. It is through context and relations that we understand the importance of human dignity. The concept means nothing… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
God promises the Holy Spirit to us who believe in Christ, and the Spirit guides us in understanding. But within this life… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
“don't ask me what good and what evil are, we knew what it was each time we had to act when blindness… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It’s not about anyone else it’s about you. You handle situations with calm and understanding, no matter how frustrating you don’t lose… — Ron Baratono Copy Share Image
“The morality that goes with this understanding is, above all, the frank recognition of your dependence upon enemies, underlings, out-groups, and, indeed,… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
The themes that run through all my work are that consciousness is the ultimate reality; and that by understanding consciousness, you understand… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
My understanding of kindness is that we are hoping to be truly beneficial in every situation, and that this desire means a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk -… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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