Rightly Understood Quotes

20 quotes by 17 authors

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. — Thomas Carlyle
But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good. — Hartley Coleridge
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to… — Benjamin Disraeli
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the… — Thomas Carlyle
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own… — Ludwig von Mises
Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels… — Pope Pius XII
To walk before God and in His presence, is the ground and the costly jewel of true Christian living. I would have you above all… — Gerhard Tersteegen
There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something… — Thomas Paine
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted. — William Jennings Bryan
Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us. — David Steindl-Rast
[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when… — Galileo Galilei
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content… — Sigmund Freud
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been… — Barry Goldwater
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. — Jose Rizal
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not… — Frances Wright

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