« All Like Dancing Quotes · Karen Armstrong's Page

Like Dancing Quotes by Karen Armstrong

1 Like Dancing quote by Karen Armstrong

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

More Quotes by Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong has 106 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their…
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to…
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great…
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied…
All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

See all 106 quotes by Karen Armstrong »

More Like Dancing Quotes

Popular Like Dancing quotes from across the collection:

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that… — Aziz Ansari
Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why… — Pauline Kael
Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late.… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw. — Cale Yarborough
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce… — Samuel Johnson
Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God. — Kurt Vonnegut
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult. — Robert Palmer
I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my… — Ali Shariati
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be… — Gilbert Highet
If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like… — Trace Adkins
Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of… — Evander Holyfield

See all Like Dancing Quotes »

Browse Karen Armstrong Quotes by Category