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attitude ignorance littles
Charles Dickens A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.
attitude philosophy book
Charles Stanley God wants you to understand the Word of God. The Bible is not a mystery book. It's not a book of philosophy. It's a book of truth that explains the attitude and heart of almighty God.
attitude important spirit
Charles Stanley Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.
attitude lying reality
Charles Stanley Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed.
attitude mean example
Alan Watts What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.
attitude mirrors people
Alan Watts Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
attitude opposites belief
Alan Watts And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
attitude distance journey
Alan Watts We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth.
ignorance pride whole-family
Charles Caleb Colton The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
ignorance errors steps
Charles Caleb Colton Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.
ignorance pride thinking
Charles Caleb Colton It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
ignorance vices principles
Charles Caleb Colton Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.
ignorance pedants disgusting
Charles Caleb Colton Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
ignorance knowledge men
Charles Caleb Colton A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
ignorance dwelling-place darkness
Charles Spurgeon Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.
ignorance sky knowing
Alan Watts The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?
ignorance reality expectations
Alan Greenspan Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...
littles making-money easy
Charles Dickens Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.
littles wealth rich
Charles Caleb Colton The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
littles want wealth
Charles Caleb Colton Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.
littles revolution events
Charles Caleb Colton The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
littles facts sometimes
Charles Caleb Colton Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.
littles too-much violence
Charles Caleb Colton In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.
littles cry you-again
Charles Dickens -Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.
littles wake-up poor
Alan Watts If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me...
littles
Alan Moore I have so very much. I have so very little.