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«I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.»
Author: Abigail Adams
(First Lady, Writer)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
conflicting, directly, entertain, entertains, felt, intelligence, number, points, points of view, reflected, simultaneously, topic, view
«Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.»
Author: Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
| Keywords:
diseases, hastiness, In the press, psychic, reflected, superficiality, The 20th Century
«Here, seated on red velvet banquettes at marble-topped tables, one can't help wonder what sights these smoky, gilded mirrors have reflected for more than 250 years.»
«Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.»
Author: William Greider
| Keywords:
admonition, advocated, advocates, advocating, animal, animals, animal rights, reflected, relate, remind, rights, The Advocate, treat, ways
«A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
beacon, beacons, fond, guise, lighting-up, lighting, reflected
«Instead of focusing on the external characteristics of others, you focus on their inner feelings, particularly as it is reflected in their behavior and expressions. You gauge the thoughts in another's mind and the feelings in their hearts by carefully watching what they say and do. When you have this kind of vision, you become concerned primarily with the deeper feelings and motivations of the other person»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
characteristics, focus on, gauge, gauged, gauging, motivations, reflected
«A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, denies, hesitate, internal, in its own right, other states, public opinion, reflected, suppression, suppressions
«But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply.»
«In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
altars, binding, blood relation, charities, cherishing, combined, dearest, domestic, fundamental law, Fundamental Laws, hearths, inseparable, mutually, polity, reflected, Ties That Bind
«A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
American elder, anew, behaved, described, elder, expectations, expected, feed, fights, measurement, measurements, native, Native American, peoples, reflected, replied, sensibly, struggles, tailor, tailored, tailoring, The Tailor, wins
