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“If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.”

Ifs Way Would Be Felt Understanding Influence Self Love One Way Spite Carrie Wiser Leading Me

Author:Ovid

“It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which they can influence, with more importunity of solicitation to adopt their opinions. In proportion as they doubt the truth of their own doctrines, they are desirous to gain the attestation of another understanding: and industriously labour to win a proselyte, and eagerly catch at the slightest pretense to dignify their sect with a distinguished name.”

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

“Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become intellectual, and to comprehend things comprehensible to rational beings, are also under the control of Divine Providence, which examines all their deeds with a view of rewarding or punishing them. ...the method of which our mind is incapable of understanding.”

Mind Understanding Views Influence Divine Intellectual Method Deeds Connected Rational Latter Providence Incapable Divine Providence

Author:Maimonides

“The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.”

Thinking Understanding Teach Influence Development Discipline Band Elements Army

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.”

World Giving Seems Able Joy Understanding Influence Wings Intellect Spheres Joyfulness Clouded Sphere Of Influence

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Your attitude toward yourself is determined largely by the attitudes that you think other people have toward you. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. The best way to build a healthy personality involves understanding yourself and your feelings.”

“We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.”

“Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi racial anti-Semitism. By concentrating on the history of the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life, Heschel describes in forceful detail the Nazification of all aspects of Protestant theology, including the Aryanization of Jesus himself. This is a highly original and important contribution to our understanding of the Third Reich.”

“Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.”

World Age Understanding Influence Old Age Finest Cheerful Ripe

Author:Ida Tarbell

“Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.”

Way Humans Understanding Views Responsibility Influence Human Nature Treats Environmental Stewardship

Author:Ian Barbour

“Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies.”

Thinking Firsts Made Body Care Culture Energy Understanding Ability Consciousness Influence Activity Factors Diets Our Society Affected Inherent Heredity

Author:Christiane Northrup

“Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.”

People Giving Understanding Support Groups Influence Products Intellectual Give Me Prison Notebook Hegemony Influencing People

Author:Okky Madasari

“I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.”

People Understanding Influence Style Findings Elegance Understanding Why

Author:Volker Bertelmann

“In specific terms I don't think I could make any suggestions, but in general terms I believe that it is because Canadians have been under the good influences of their churches that they are a tolerant people, an understanding and patient people, so that there has been little backlash against the excesses which have happened over the decades in French and in English Canada which might turn either group off.”

People Thinking Believe Littles Has Beens Might Turns I Believe Understanding Term Church Happened Groups Influence Patient Decades Canada Excess Suggestions Backlash Good Influences

Author:Pierre Trudeau