W Quotes
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“What is right is a lot more important than who is right.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“What is right is more important than who is right.”
“What is right is not always the same as what is legal”
“What is right, is not always what is just. A lot of our stories in history remain unjust, not because of the wicked, but because of the righteous who stood in the way of justice. Some are for what is right and others are for what is just. I'm for what is just.”
“What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.”
“What is right may properly be uttered even twice.”
“What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.”
Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”
Source: Emma: By Jane Austen
“What is right will always cost you everything. If you are not willing to lose everything for righteousness sake, you are not ready to gain anything in return.”
“What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.”
“What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.”
“What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.”
“What is sacred is not what we build, but what we protect—quiet places, fragile species, tender truths.”
“What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.”
Source: The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred
“What is sacred to Bokononists?" I asked after a while.
"Not even God, as near as I can tell."
"Nothing?"
"Just one thing."
I made some guesses. "The ocean? The sun?"
"Man," said Frank. "That's all. Just man.”
“What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?”
“What is sad is not to be able to do today what you have done in your youth. But what is good is to remember that - when you were able - you did it to the best of your ability.”
“What Is sad .It is that out of all the talent, that is out there. People these days are entertained by people who talk bad and crab about other people. Even thou they laugh hard and loud. There will be an Increase of depression and suicides after. From those whom they were laughing at.”
“What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“What is said behind my back is said to my ass.”
“What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances - accents, punctuation and so on - that they spend little time thinking about what the words add up to. I’m interested in using our communication skills to change the way things are.”
“What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.”
“What is said is not as important as what [you] hear and what [you] feel.”
“What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.”
Source: De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings
“What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.”
Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals
“What is saiyam? It is a state in which One remains unaffected by the effects of both, upsarga (externally induced suffering) and parishaha (internally induced affliction). And if one were to get affected, then One would simply continue to Know the effect but would not suffer (vedey) the effect. And even if he were to suffer the effect, He would still simply Know it; that is known as saiyam.”
Source: Generation Gap
“What is saiyam parinaam? It is when the Self (Atma) does not become one in with the non-Self (pudgal); It continues to prevail separately. If the Self is allowed to become one [with the non-Self], then that becomes a violent intent (himsak bhaav).”
Source: Worries
“What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!”
“What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power, and accept everyone’s worldly authority. People abuse their acquired authority and consequently loose their right for human birth (manushyapanu). Accept whatever authority one has.”
“What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?”
Source: Now in November
“What is Sapiens (The Sonnet)
Soil can survive without sapiens,
But there is no sapiens without soil.
There is no us if nature goes off the rocker,
Yet way more than nature, we value gas and oil.
We started off using clothes as cover for privacy,
And we ended up prioritizing clothes over integrity.
Instead of loving people and using the products,
We ended up loving products and abusing humanity.
Sapiens is supposed to mean wise and aware,
But in practice, sapiens is code for shallow.
Sapiens has become just a synonym for show-off.
Neither wise, nor aware, sapiens just means narrow.
However, no error is ultimate if we're willing for reform.
An expanding heart is the antidote to all narrow norm.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“What is SATORI. (Enlightenment).
The (relatively easy) acceptance of the interdependency of all things in the universe, and, beyond that, (the rather more complex) how you as an individual choose to deal with that fact.”
Source: The Way We Are
“What is SATORI. (Enlightenment).
Understanding your own and the passing nature of all around you and developing an awareness of everything that you are not.”
Source: The Way We Are
“What is satya (truth)? When no living being is hurt through speech, is not hurt through conduct or one does not think any thing bad for the other person; it is the greatest truth. It is the greatest principle! It is not the ‘real’ truth. It is the ultimate ‘worldly truth’ (vyavahar satya).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.”
“What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.”
“What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.”
“What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.”
“What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human life on earth. My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give them. My life depends on ignoring all touted distinctions between the secular and the sacred, the physical and the spiritual, the body and the soul. What is saving my life now is becoming more fully human, trusting that there is no way to God apart from real life in the real world.”
“What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.”
“What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?”
“What is Science, What is Holy (Sonnet)
There is no greater spiritual journey
than the rejection of prejudice,
there is no greater meditation
than self-imposed scrutiny.
Bringing a candle to a neighbor's
home who had their power cut off,
is far holier than lighting
a thousand candles in the church.
If you bring electricity to a marginalized
community with a simple solar power kit,
it's a far greater scientific achievement
than the gargantuan glories of the LHC.
There is no greater scientific achievement
than simple science solving big problems.
There is no greater holiness than trading
in the bible for a simple act of kindness.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“What is scripture? It is in the form of words. As the meanings of those words become clear (are clarified), they become shabdaarth (literal meaning of a word). Then the meaning of the word progress further. As the meaning is clarified further, it reaches parmartha (ultimate meaning). The vision reaches to that level. However, the scriptures cannot change the vision. A ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] is needed to change the vision. It is ‘this’ very vision (unchanged vision) that has created the worldly life. The Gnani [the enlightened one] does ‘drashti-bhed’ [gives the vision of what is real and what is relative].”
Source: Who am I?
“What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.”
“What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.”
“What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.”
Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations
“What is seen by mind, is an environmental image that projected by public consciousness in vicinity.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“What is seen is not the Truth
What is cannot be said
Trust comes not without seeing
Nor understanding without words
The wise comprehends with knowledge
To the ignorant it is but a wonder
Some worship the formless God
Some worship his various forms
In what way He is beyond these attributes
Only the Knower knows
That music cannot be written
How can then be the notes
Say Kabir, awareness alone will overcome illusion.”