More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of yeses. There's commitment, confirmation, and counterfeit. People are most used to giving the counterfeit yes because they've… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Those people who have got wisdom are very lucky people, but wisdom comes from no source but your own understanding of life.… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
My father was a doctor, but his passion was making cars, and he was also very good at carpentry. He was a… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
My mother gave me an understanding that as good as you think you are, you're not so great. There's always room for… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
I don't think you can understand Trump's relationship to his voters and how he gets away with what he gets away with,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The mysteries of the faith are not to [be] explained rashly to anyone. Usually in fact, they cannot be understood by everyone… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Kids under, I'd say, 14 are still maturing; they are still growing. They are still understanding themselves. To hit them with something… — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
If you can imagine the story of the world as a giant movie, to not have some understanding of the Bible -… — Steve Green Copy Share Image
Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
We are living in uncertain times. In a world where peace seems to be in short supply, I feel like the world… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
As we get better at understanding how little we know about the body, we begin to realize that the next big frontier… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“If the plan is simple enough, everyone understands it, which means each person can rapidly adjust and modify what he or she… — Jocko Willink Copy Share Image
The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and… — Mirah Copy Share Image
Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“The practice which obtains amongst the Americans of fixing the standard of their judgment in themselves alone, leads them to other habits… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The confidentiality of the judicial process would not matter greatly to an understanding and evaluation of the legal system if the consequences… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I think one of the primary reasons young women don't identify as feminist is because they don't know any feminists and/or don't… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
A man develops a subtle power as a result of the strict observance of celibacy for twelve years. Then he can understand… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image