Touchstones Quotes

65 quotes by 59 authors

We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea… — Jack Kemp
Compassion is the litmus test and culminating touchstone of a spirituality of Earth. — James Conlon
Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial: force it to answer the interrogatories put to it… — Richard Baxter
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. — Felix Frankfurter
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups,… — Robert Kennedy
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology. — Robert A. Heinlein
So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly blooms into love,… — Rajneesh
The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures. — George Meredith
Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced...… — Francois Mauriac
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only… — Joseph Joubert
After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft… — Kent Haruf
Chess is the touchstone of intellect. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity. — Carl Jung
It was remarked yesterday that a numerous representation was necessary to obtain the confidence of the people. This is not generally true. The confidence of… — Alexander Hamilton
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas,… — Carl Rogers
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes
The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the… — Timothy Keller
Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is, indeed, cold, and… — David Berlinski
We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent. — Jeff Bezos
Pain is the touchstone of all growth — Bill W.

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