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“Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.”

Giving Should Results Attention Equal Pages Models Mere Curiosity Intense

Author:Ernest Dimnet

“The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.”

Thinking Men Justice Results Effort Education Teaching Information Diversity All Things Social Justice Mere

Book:The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

“I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.”

Sometimes Facts Results Type Criticism Mere Hunches

Book:My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

“I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.”

Knows Kind Self Causes Justice Results Cases Events Mere Expected Application Thieves Evident Worldly Calculations Extravagant

Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.”

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.”

Men Mind Heart Pleasure Results Understood Regard Instruments Mere Folly Toys Wickedness Fashionable Frivolity Vacuity Heartlessness

Author:Sarah Moore Grimke

“Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern science arose from global objections against earlier views and rationalism itself, the idea that there are general rules and standards for conducting our affairs, affairs of knowledge included, arose from global objections to common sense.”

Ideas Facts Results Views Common Modern Standards Excellence Mere Affair Common Sense Sufficient Objections Modern Science Conducting Rationalism

Author:Paul Feyerabend

“... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on the principle, that the more God bestows on them, the less are they under obligation to practise any self-denial, in fulfilling his benevolent plan of raising our race to intelligence and holiness.”

“A saving knowledge of Christ crucified and risen is not the mere result of right reasoning about historical facts. It is the result of spiritual illumination to see those facts for what they really are: a revelation of the truth and glory of God in the face of Christ-who is the same yesterday today and forever.”

Facts Today Faces Spiritual Christ Results Forever Glory Historical Mere Yesterday Saving Reasoning Revelations Illumination Risen Glory Of God Historical Facts

Author:John Piper