T Quotes
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“To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.”
“To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation.”
“To talk of probability is to suggest that events might happen differently from the way they do, whereas events themselves will unfold according to an inevitable path.”
Source: The Human Script
“To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to humanity, no single feature that intrinsically caused one creature to be human where its parents were not... However hard you try to define every point before the signpost as non-human, and every point after the post as human, the river flows continually.”
Source: Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
“To talk of the size of a thought is odd, perhaps, but to say that someone is thinking big thoughts is not without meaning. "I want you all to come to my birthday party" is a bigger thought than "I want only some of you to come." Bodhicitta is theoretically the biggest thought anyone can think because of the number of beings involved, what it wants them to have, and the length of time it must last before its motivating power dies out. Since the duration of a thought is a variable of the aim, in the sense that the actions motivated by a thought cease when the aim is attained, one can conceive of thoughts that last longer and longer. Bodhicitta necessarily lasts until the last living being reaches the state free of suffering, because it is only then that the aim is finally achieved. This explains the prayer of Samantabhadra at the end of the Gandavyūha section of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, which the Dalai Lama often invokes: "For as long as space endures may I remain to work for the benefit of living beings.”
Source: Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea: Verses in Praise of Bodhicitta
“To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?"”
“To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.”
“To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible.”
“To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.”
“To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”
“To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!”
“To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.”
Source: Burmese Days
“To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts.”
Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]
“To tap into that natural creative spirit, recapture your childlike enthusiasm for everything around you. Work with the reckless delight of a child.”
Source: The New Creative Artist
“To taste fully is to live fully. And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths - good and terrible, overwhelming and miniscule. To eat passionately is to allow the world in; there can be no hiding or sublimation when you're chewing a mouthful of food so good it makes you swoon.”
“To taste life, so true and real. Sweet serenity.”
“To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
“To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.”
Source: Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy
“To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.”
“To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.”
“To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say two plus two is four to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.”
“To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.”
“To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he does not sense it himself. He cannot share his enthusiasm when he has no enthusiasm to share. How he makes his point may be as important as the point he makes; he must personally feel it to be important.”
Source: Mathematical Methods in Science
“To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy
“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.”
Source: A History of Western Philosophy
“To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.”
Source: Teaching To Transgress
“To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.”
“To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.”
“To teach is great, but to inspire is divine.”
“To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.”
Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
“To teach is to delight.”
“To teach is to learn twice.”
Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert
“To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.”
“To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.”
“To teach is to remediate from the absence of knowledge or the lack of insight into a subject. To know is to learn and to learn is to know how to be, within the aspect of learning and holding the power to explore further into the unknown.”
“To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible.”
“To teach is to show. You can't teach what you don't know. You can't guide where you don't go. And you can't grow what you don't sow.”
“To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.”
“To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.”
“To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well.”
“To teach men that they possess the ability to turn from sin when they choose to do so is to hide the true extent of their need.”
Source: The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones - 1899-1981
“To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.”
Source: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately
“To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.”
“To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country... if we don't, someone else will run our country.”
“To teach our kids what they need to know online, we have to talk to them off line.”
Source: Kindness Wins
“To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all.”
“To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.”