![[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.](/assets/img/quote-photos/on-being-deaf-we-can-never-get-beyond-the-necessity-of-keeping-in-full-view-th.jpg)
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wise men judging-yourself
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
wise forever action
A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise. Bill Crawford
wise african-american wise-words
A word to the wise ain't... Bill Cosby
wise heart victory
Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
wise our-generation generations
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
wise art easy
Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.
wise challenges violence
Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.
wise cousin rap
Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death. Big Pun
wise children heart
As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head. C. S. Lewis
views law may
The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes. Barry Lopez
views practice together
In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment. B. F. Skinner
views sky limits
Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view. Big Sean
views ideas political
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values. Antoni Tapies
views months compromise
A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise. Bill Vaughan
views law two
In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.
views other-worlds earth
But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human. Bertrand Russell
views income carbon
There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. Al Gore
views long special
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Charles Darwin
trials prejudice lost
We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost. David Boies
trials rich poor
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor. Clarence Darrow
trials scene accusation
In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict. Anais Nin
trials fairs fair-trial
A fair trial would have been no trial at all. Angela Davis
trials politics would-be
[Alan] Dershowitz has also offered to defend Osama bin Laden in court, saying it would be an act of high patriotism. It's kind of too bad there isn't going to be a trial. Having Dershowitz defend him could be Osama's only shot at not being the least popular person in the courtroom. Ann Coulter
trials world prettiest
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world. Jane Austen
trials lord evidence
Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. Richard G. Scott
trials surreal whole
The whole trial seemed surreal. Bernhard Goetz
trials guilty
I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty. Connie Willis