I Quotes
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“It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.”
Source: The Dance in Mind: Profiles and Reviews 1976-83
“It is one thing to explain the causal origins of thinking, as science commendably does; it is an entirely different thing to conflate thinking in its formal or rule-governed dimension with its evolutionary genesis. Being conditioned is not the same as being constituted. Such a conflation not only sophistically elides the distinction between the substantive and the formal, it also falls victim to a dogmatic metaphysics that is impulsively blind to its own epistemological and methodological bases qua origins.
It is this genetic fallacy that sanctions the demotion of general intelligence as qualitatively distinct to a mere quantitative account of intelligent behaviours prevalent in nature. It should not come as a any surprise that this is exactly the jaded gesture of antihumanism upon whose shoddy pillars today's discourse of posthumanism supports its case. Talk of thinking forests, rocks, worn shoes, and ethereal beings goes hand in hand with the cult of technological singularity, musings on Skynet or the Market as speculative posthuman intelligence, and computers endowed with intellectual intuition. And again, by now it should have become obvious that, despite the seeming antagonism between these two camps - one promoting the so-called egalitarianism of going beyond human conditions by dispensing with the rational resources of critique, the other advancing the speculative aspects of posthuman supremacy on the grounds of the technological overcoming of the human condition - they both in fact belong to the arsenal of today's neoliberal capitalism in its full-on assault on any account of intelligence that may remotely insinuate an ambition for collective rationality and imagination.”
Source: Intelligence and Spirit
“It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”
Source: Classic Teachings on the Nature of God
“It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.”
Source: The Works of John Owen
“It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.”
“It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.”
Source: An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners
“It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go; but it is a gift of darkness as well as light.”
“It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...”
“It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations....we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.”
“It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War
“It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.”
“It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.”
“It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.”
“It is one thing to look into someone's eyes while talking. It is completely another thing to look into them in silence. When there is silence inside and outside you, look into your deity's eyes. You will get pulled into them and never come out.”
“It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.”
Source: Waldmeer
“It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.”
Source: Matched
“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.”
Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time
“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”
“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”
Source: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales
“It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it is an infinite evil. It is one thing to mourn for it because it is injurious to ourselves; another, to mourn for it because it is offensive to God. It is one thing to be terrified; another, to be humbled.”
Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character
“It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.”
“It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.”
Source: Letters on Toleration
“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.”
“It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.”
“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.”
Source: The Living Thoughts of Cervantes
“It is one thing to pray, but another thing to watch how God answers - and He does so effortlessly.”
Source: Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
“It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.”
“It is one thing to read the Scriptures and affirm their truth. But until you are in the trenches of trial, until you are faced with life circumstances that test your faith, until you are pressed to the absolute limit of your physical and emotional capacity, until you face the unrelenting stress of ongoing trauma, you never really know how you'll respond to what you may have embraced so easily during a comfortable Bible study.”
“It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.”
“It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.”
“It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.”
“It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.”
“It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.”
“It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding.”
“It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.”
Source: The Aesop for Children
“It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.”
“It is one thing to say that the Lord is my Shepherd; it is quite another to be lost and have Him guide me home.”
Source: Extraordinary Faith: God's Perfect Gift For Every Womans Heart
“It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.”
Source: A Passion for the Possible
“It is one thing to say you have healed and another to know and have grasped the understanding by letting it fully transform you.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thing completely.”
Source: Peace Like a River
“It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue of the most primitive, the most rudimentary attribute they possess, that namely of sex.”
“It is one thing to scale the Himalayas for glory; quite another to do it for a flower with an unpronounceable Latin name.”
Source: The Royally Heroic Adventures of Sir Digby Dungchunder
“It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.”
Source: The Second World War: The Grand Alliance
“It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.”
“It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.”
Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.”
“It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it”
“It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.”