"The most powerful moral influence is example." — Huston Smith
"The most powerful moral influence is example."
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Huston Smith
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81 Quotes by Huston Smith
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only…
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot…
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One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin…
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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
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Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful,…
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art,…
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that…
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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
— Giorgio Armani
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Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
— Francis of Assisi
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that…
— Teresa of Avila
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
— Francis Bacon
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Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of…
— Hosea Ballou
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman…
— Dave Barry
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Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to…
— Dave Barry
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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
— Dave Barry
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I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood…
— Joe Barton
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The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.
— Bob Beauprez
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