T Quotes
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“The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.”
Source: Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit
“The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.”
“The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.”
“The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.”
Source: Writings
“The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities.
--- Charlotte Bronte”
Source: The Brontës: A Life in Letters
“The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.”
Source: THE THEORY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (Nature, Causes, Utility & Drift of Business Enterprise): A Political Economy Book
“The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...”
“The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.”
Source: Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921) Director of Souls
“The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.”
“The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.”
“The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.”
Source: Fors Clavigera
“The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.”
“The first duty of life is to live.”
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
“The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.”
“The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.”
“The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.”
“The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
“The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.”
“The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it.”
Source: The child in the family
“The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.”
“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”
“The first ear of corn, eaten like a typewriter, means summer to me—intense, but fleeting.”
Source: V Is for Vegetables: Inspired Recipes & Techniques for Home Cooks - from Artichokes to Zucchini
“The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year.”
“The first education should be the harmonious development of the child's physical, mental and spiritual powers. Providing warm and understanding responses to your children's 'hearts' accomplishes far more than pressuring book knowledge into their minds.”
Source: Homestyle Teaching
“The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.”
Source: My Story
“The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.”
“The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense”
Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition
“The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.”
Source: Modern Culture
“The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.”
“The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.”
“The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community.”
“The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.”
“The first element for putting fatalism aside is overcoming the exclusive focus on the present, not only by opening people's minds to the future, but also by recovering the memory of their personal and collective past. Only insofar as people and groups become aware of their historical roots, especially those events and conditions which have shaped their situation, can they gain the perspective they need to take the measure of their own identity. Knowing who you are means knowing where you come from and on whom you depend. There is no true self-knowledge that is not an acknowledgement of one's origins, one's community identity, and one's own history.”
Source: Writings for a Liberation Psychology
“The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.”
“The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.”
Source: Autobiography
“The first element of painting is not painting, but going out in the world and having a beer.”
“The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.”
“The first encounter with Chan/Zen took place in Japan, where Francis Xavier arrived in August 1549. Xavier's stay in Japan was relatively short, and he had to rely in the beginning on the poor information provided by the Japanese convert Yajirō, who spoke some Portuguese. In contrast to Ricci's, Xavier's judgment reflects the sociopolitical importance of Buddhism in Japanese society prior to the anti-Buddhist repression of 1571, as well as the strong impressions left by his first encounters with Zen masters. Although Xavier and his confreres were puzzled by the many similarities between Buddhism and Christianity and first interpreted them as proof of a past knowledge, obscured in time, of Christian teachings, they eventually attributed them to the work of the devil (Schurhammer 1982, 224).”
Source: Chan Insights and Oversights
“The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.”
“The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their goals by purchasing goods and services....What people do or make but will not or cannot put up for sale is as immeasurable and as invaluable for the economy as the oxygen they breathe.”
Source: The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies
“The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material in the living hepatic tissue. The second entirely chemical action, which can be effected outside the influence of life, consists in the transformation of the glycogenic material into sugar by means of a ferment.”
“The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.”
“The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.”
Source: A fragment of autobiography: the fun of writing the inside books
“The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.”
“The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.”
“The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.”
“The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.”
Source: Economic philosophy
“The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.”