Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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“ Six Beliefs That Set the Course of Your Life 1. If you don’t believe the impossible can happen, then you are… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
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My mum, who died in 2011, was the most loving mother you could ask for. She was very compassionate, always a good… — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
I am free. If I want to be sad, it is my freedom. If I want to be happy, it is my… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it… — Origen Copy Share Image
She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
One cannot declare that only his faith is correct and all other faiths are not. God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Being a dad, I certainly know what it feels like to give lots of love and understanding, and I also know what… — Jason Lee Copy Share Image
I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at… — George Albert Wells Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
This doesn't show that there is anything wrong with our theoretical understanding, any more than the intuition that the Earth is at… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
I may do things you don't understand... I used to think that happiness could only be something that happened to somebody else,… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
Whether it's on the court or off, there's a sense of understanding that you get from - and I'm not going to… — Jerami Grant Copy Share Image
There are some really amazing artists and people behind the scenes who are really effective in championing feminism in the music industry,… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
I wish that in the course of my visit to places the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] calls home, all of a sudden,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. ... The images we… — John Blakemore Copy Share Image
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge… — Mpumelelo Reverb Copy Share Image
You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
My understanding of my faith is that - through a Christian framework - part of what we are called to do is… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
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In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
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