Found Quotes - Page 37

Even theories must have foundations.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.

I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Lets just say we often found ourselves in each others company and neither of us minded.

The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form if it breathes some, if it has some enigma to it, it is also the enigma that is the abstract, I would think.

Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.

... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.

A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.

The foundation of a man's duty as a man is in truth. Beyond this there is nothing to be said.

Miracles are everywhere to be found when the priesthood is understood, its power is honored and used properly, and faith is exerted.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

There is Bengal, and Bihar, Barakor river is in the middle of them; so strange, so profound! No other river (not even Ganga) has cast so vast a spell on me.

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

God has a tremendous sense of humor! Religion remains something dead without a sense of humor as a foundation to it. God would not have been able to create the world if he had no sense of humor. God is not serious at all. Seriousness is a state of disease; humor is health. Love, laughter, life, they are aspects of the same energy.

I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time

Ventilation is the profound secret of existence.