“Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be understood and preserved for ages to come. When the spiritually minded dive deeply into the ocean of their meaning they bring to the surface the pearls of their inner significance. There is no greater pleasure than to study God’s Word with a spiritual mind.” MindAgeSpiritualOrderPleasureCommonStudyGreaterTeachingDivineOceanUnderstoodSurfaceHeavenlySignificancePearlsParablesToo Deep Author:Abdu'l-Bahá
“I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.” TwoTogetherFightingHalfGreaterRightsLandGreatnessUnderstoodHundredTreatedFortyAcresSmallness Author:Louis Riel
“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.” IfsMenFeelsBelieveSoulLastsGreaterPossibilityDivineUnderstoodEvery ManClosetsChamber Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.” GivingSoundGreaterListeningUnderstoodSacredness Book:Stillness Speaks Source: Stillness Speaks
“I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.” PeopleIfsMenShouldWellsSaidUseAbleGreaterRegretGeniusTaxesUnderstoodClaimsIncomeDefinedIncome TaxI RegretCastes Author:Otto Weininger
“Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.” MenHumansSelfPoliticalPurposeCertainFatherWinningNationsLibertyStruggleGreaterRightsCreationSourceUnderstoodIndependenceCreatorBritishEvidentDeclarationFoundingOur Founding FathersDeclaration Of IndependenceUnalienable RightsPolitical RightsColonistsGreater Purpose Author:William J. Clinton