Sensitive Quotes

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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can… — Sun Tzu
This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive… — Paulo Freire
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is… — Ouida
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out… — Ken Wilber
Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were… — Aberjhani
Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It… — P.G. Wodehouse
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity. — Pope John Paul II
Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell… — Marquis de Sade
We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. — Dalai Lama
Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that… — Maria Montessori
Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these… — Hippocrates
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware. — Dalai Lama
Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead… — Roger Tory Peterson
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. — Richard J. Foster
Remember, meditation will bring you more and more intelligence, infinite intelligence, a radiant intelligence. Meditation will make you more alive and sensitive; your life will… — Rajneesh
What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has… — Rollo May
Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive. — James Anthony Froude

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