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Source: Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air and Other Branches of Natural Philosophy, Connected with the Subject ...: Being the Former Six Volumes Abridged and Methodized, with Many Additions

“It may seem daunting, but I am a prisoner of hope. We are more connected than ever before, we have more knowledge, and there are solutions if we work together. Today's technology is a great asset in encouraging global cooperation and understanding.”

Ifs May Seems Today Together Understanding Technology Solutions Connected Working Together Assets Prisoner Cooperation More Knowledge

Author:Desmond Tutu

“There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is--that is the rest of victory!”

“Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured.”

Should May Age Understanding Term Boys Discipline Degrees Should Have Regard Penalties Harsh Severe Seriousness Delinquents Excommunication

Book:St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries

Source: St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries

“Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.”

May Past Understanding Views Possibility Prepared Point Of View Convinced Thinker Historian Superiority Adequate Liable

Book:What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

“Spinoza , for example, thought that insight into the essence of reality, into the harmonious structure of the eternal universe, necessarily awakens love for this universe. For him, ethical conduct is entirely determined by such insight into nature, just as our devotion to a person may be determined by insight into his greatness or genius. Fears and petty passions, alien to the great love of the universe, which is logos itself, will vanish, according to Spinoza, once our understanding of reality is deep enough.”

Source: Eclipse of Reason

“An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.”

Men Years May Art Done Whole Shows Artist Understanding Half One Day Paper Draws Labor Careful Pens Sheets Small Things Great Work Great Power Whole Year

Author:Albrecht Durer

“Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.”

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Author:David Cannadine

“However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings.”

“There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.”

Men May Next Understanding Picks Be A Man Pondering Understanding Why

Book:THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

“Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.”

Men May Doe Reason Feelings Understanding Challenges Crime Shapes Claims Suicide Fortune Species Superiors Combat Heroism Justified True Hero

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.”

Thinking World May Shows Hate Understanding Ignorance Hatred Add Cruelty Cures Flames Fuel Here And There

Book:Clarence Darrow on the Death Penalty

Source: Clarence Darrow on the Death Penalty

“Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou makest him, such commonly shall thou find him. Let his first lesson be obedience and his second shall be what thou wilt.”

Firsts May Children Understanding Lessons Seasons Obedience Vessel April Frost Vigilant Twigs Makest

Author:Francis Quarles

“No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work for the world which falls to his share. Even though the full understanding of his work, and of its ultimate value, may not be present with him; if he but love it--always assuming that his conscience approves--it brings an abounding satisfaction.”

Ifs Men World May Values Fall Understanding Work Share Particular Conscience Ultimate Assuming Satisfaction

Book:Life, Its Nature, Varieties&phenomena. 4th Ed

Source: Life, Its Nature, Varieties&phenomena. 4th Ed

“The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.”

May Character Understanding Importance Prison Mentality Keepers

Book:Kind and usual punishment: the prison business

Source: Kind and usual punishment: the prison business

“Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.”

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Author:Mary Hays

“However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.”

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Author:Vera Brittain

“Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.”

“I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.”

Thinking May Matter Action Humanity Understanding Characterization Deviance

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.”

Thinking May Long Understanding Growth Acting Periods Helpful Consumption Long Periods Of Time

Book:The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

Source: The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

“Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed be calculated as infinitely small; yet the degree of weakness may perhaps be measured by the degree of obstinacy and dogmatic confidence.”

Humans May Lying Understanding Differences History Subjects Degrees Highest Weakness Lowest Roman Empire Dogmatic Obstinacy

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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