The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries.… — Fritz Haber Copy Share Image
Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Are we reading the Constitution and pondering it? Are we aware of its principles? Are we abiding by these principles and teaching… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament,… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As my personal explorations continued, I experienced this quality of inner reality more and more and could no longer doubt that the… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
For 13 years I have been teaching my daughter and talking to her to have faith in her God, to have faith… — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I began to hear what I was being taught about God, by the priest and my parish, and my exterior teaching did… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I have two little girls, four and one. My four-year-old is obsessed with makeup, and not through me! All on her own.… — Ayesha Curry Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Since in early youth it cannot be known what ends are likely to occur to us in the course of life, parents… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say'… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
God's ways do not change... Still he shows his freedom and lordship by discriminating between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they… — Brock Adams Copy Share Image
The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know,… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
In education, I'm going to try to find what works. One thing I want to do is improve the quality of teachers.… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
“Of course present knowledge of psychology is nearer to zero than to complete perfection, and its applications to teaching must therefore be… — Edward Lee Thorndike Copy Share Image
“So you'll teach me?" Val asked. Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire." "I don't want to… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks… — Jan Carlzon Copy Share Image
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I'd like to give every young teacher some good news. Teaching is a very easy job. Administrators will tell you what to… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
Obama wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image