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“Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion”

Sin Compassion Teach Practice Study Students Enlightenment Essence Profound Tolerance Rely Emptiness Urges Grammar Refrain Dualism

Author:Akkineni Nagarjuna

“Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence.”

World Reality Perfect Existence Teach Yoga Essence Clean Glasses Penetrate Inner World Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas .”

Men World Humans Ideas Soul Home Existence Teach Pure Essentials Eternal Essence Separation Realms Participation Plato Human Soul Transitory

Book:Writings on religion

Source: Writings on religion

“"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace endeavored to make clear the very spirit and essence of the ancient myths, Euhemerus pretended, on the contrary, that "myths were the legendary history of kings and heroes, transformed into gods by the admiration of the nations." It is the latter method which was inferentially followed by Christians when they agreed upon the acceptation of euhemerized patriarchs, and mistook them for men who had really lived.”

Men Has Beens Christian Law Spirit Nations Moral Teach Clear Wise Kings Hero Essence Method Ancient Myth Contrary Latter Admiration Transformed Legendary

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

“This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.”

Source: The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld

“The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.”

Ideas School Understanding Teach Knowing Tests Essence Elitism Knowing And Understanding More Is Better

Book:In Defense of Elitism

Source: In Defense of Elitism

“I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.”

Thinking Young Teach Taught Essence Poetry Is Young Writers

Author:Robert Morgan

“If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.”

Ifs World Problem Language Teach Essence Solve Bones Poetry Is Skeletons

Author:Rita Dove

“I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian) Well, you're never too old to learn. (Amanda) You can't teach an old dog new tricks. (Kyrian) There's no time like the present. (Amanda) Time is of the essence. (Kyrian) God helps those who help themselves. (Amanda) You're not going to let me win this, are you? (Kyrian)”

Years Wells Two Helping Winning Teach Dog Havens Thousand Essence Let Me Tricks Thousand Years God Help Old Dog Amanda God Helps Those Who Help Themselves

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.”

Life Soul Past Moving Life Is Dies Teach Essence Nurture Essence Of Life

Book:Mariana

Source: Mariana

“Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything -- from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.”

Ifs Way Want Whole Hands School Courses Education Teach Teacher College Essence Intelligence Grades Convince Instruction Originality Sophisticated Imitating Bad Grades

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Teach a child how to think, not what to think.”

“Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.”

May Two Philosophy Literature Steps Teach Psychology Type Activity Essence Educational Manifestation Every Step

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky

“.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.”

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne