“I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.” HumansArtBodyArtistFallWishSituationTeachingHighestNobleRuinsHuman BodyElevationSmall Beginnings Author:Giorgio Vasari
“What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong?” PersonsNextBeliefWishTeachingAngryDeitiesBelief In God Author:Chuck Austen
“Christ said "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" and when asked "who is thy neighbour? went on to the parable of the Good Samaritan. If you wish to understand this parable as it was understood by his hearers, you should substitute "Germans and Japanese" for Samaritan. I fear my modern day Christians would resent such a substitution, because it would compel them to realize how far they have departed from the teachings of the founder of their religion.” IfsShouldSaidChristianWishChristRealizingTeachingModernUnderstoodNeighborSubstitutesFoundersThyselfNeighbourResentParablesDepartedModern DayLove Thy NeighborSubstitutionSamaritans Author:Bertrand Russell
“Sacred scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expressed itself in terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer. Any other teaching about the origin and makeup of the universe is so alien to the intentions of the Bible, which does not wish to teach how heaven was made but how one goes to heaven.” WorldDoeMadeUseOrderUniverseHeavenWishTermTeachTeachingSacredIntentionScriptureAliensMakeupCosmologySacred Scripture Author:Pope John Paul II
“Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.” KnowsCountryLanguageWishEasyStudyTeacherTeachingBreatheBoatAtmosphereAcquireNativeDominantThoroughBest TeacherMinersMoats Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.” MenBookSelfSchoolHopeWishEducationLearningTeachingNew YorkSelf ImprovementLibraryImprovementGlamourPhilanthropist Author:Vartan Gregorian
“I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.” StillsWishClassTeachingCollege Author:Patrick Rothfuss