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thinking evil inquiry
Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged. Charles Kimball
thinking america ifs
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow. Charles Kettering
trying research want
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
teacher war practice
Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
trouble
Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
technology simple looks
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
thinking able taxation
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
technology invention inventor
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
teaching engineering years
If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time...
thinking dollars too-much
We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
truth sick intellectual
Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness. Charles Kingsley
truth heart wicked
Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.
truth sake virtue
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
teacher book reading
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.
thanksgiving self excellence
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
thinking people want
If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.
true-love love-is sentimental
Love is sentimental measles.
talking wind use
If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay. Charles Dance
thinking window charles-i
I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.
truth dumb letters
Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb. Charles Churchill
thrones virtue weak
Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
truth lying believe
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
team levels great-team
I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a great team, one of the greatest ever organized. Charles Comiskey
things-in-life leaks reservoirs
It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.
tyrants grace doubt
The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes. Charles Colson
today christianity marginalization
Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.
tragedy quests life-is
To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.
two parent imbeciles
Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring. Charles Davenport
two australia might
On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'” Charles Darwin
taken diversity bird
Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.
tree progress branches
The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.
teaching humility views
...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.
trying supportive special
I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying.