Best example & understood Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry on, as well as showing us aspects of ourselves we can't easily see. For listening to the stories of others - not to their precautions or personal commandments - is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells Kind Enough Stories Seems Remember Names Water Common Break Example Listening Understood Aspect Medicine Ancient Isolation Commandments Fever Precaution

Author:Mark Nepo

“Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!”

Example Understood Ideals Brotherhood

Book:Autobiography of a Yogi

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi

“I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue the cat ... yet cannot walk down the hallway without grabbing both walls with his grubby hands for balance.”

Children Hands Walks Example Tvs Wall Balance Understood Cat Scales Climbs Rescue Roof Hallways Grabbing Antenna

Book:The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

“An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.”

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word. Let's make an example. Take the word gay. Fifty years ago, gay meant exclusively cheerfulness, lighthearted excitement, merry or bright colors. Today this word has a different meaning. You won't call a cheerful person gay because it could be understood as something else.”

“One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?”

People Example Understood Aspect London Customs Gym

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.”

Men Wells Example Authority Understood Timely Posthumous

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Christianity, righty understood, is utterly unlike religion that man invents. It is so completely contrary to the way man does things that it must have come from God. Take Christmas, for example; only God could have thought of that. When man invents a super being, he comes up with a Superman, or a Captain Marvel. God gives the world a baby.”

Men World Way Giving Doe Christianity Example Baby Understood Come Up Contrary Captains

Author:Richard Halverson

“You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions."”

People Thinking Want Government Happens Individual Decision Moral Example Understood Army Yeah Over You Moral Decisions

Author:Joel Stein

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