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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Speaker: VoltairePosted: 02 Jun 2019 at 7:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
…Councils are for counsel and the exchange of ideas, not just reports and lectures.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Opinion alone has no power in the matter of an absolute truth.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballSource: Absolute Truth, Sept Ensign 1978Posted: 10 Jan 2017 at 11:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The only control placed on us is self-control—self-control born of respect for the divine power this gift represents.
Speaker: Elder Jeffrey R. HollandSource: Personal Purity, Feb 2000Posted: 13 Jun 2016 at 6:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
Speaker: Joseph AddisonPosted: 13 Jun 2016 at 6:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn’t occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don’t like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don’t like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.
Speaker: Salman RushdiePosted: 14 Feb 2015 at 2:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“...so long as good deeds are motivated by selfish or malicious desires they cannot transform and enrich either the giver or the receiver”
Source: Joseph Fielding McConkie, Robert L. Millet, and Brent L. Top, Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of MormonPosted: 09 Jun 2015 at 1:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.
Source: The Black SwanPosted: 16 Feb 2015 at 11:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.
Speaker: Carrie SnowPosted: 14 Nov 2011 at 2:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Genealogists are time unravelers.
Posted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Speaker: Will DurantPosted: 20 Mar 2008 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Speaker: Frederick DouglassPosted: 01 Jun 2014 at 10:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True love is found in the affirmation of another person’s identity and stewardship, in seeking his or her growth and good, not in interpreting all the other person’s responses in terms of one’s own needs, hungers, or desires.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[9:47:03 AM] Blake Stevenson: ugh… ran out of milk … eating dry cereal .
[9:47:07 AM] Blake Stevenson: what a nightmard
[9:48:26 AM] *** Ted Southard has changed the conversation topic to “Nightmard” ***Speaker: BlakeSource: Skype early in the morn, classic blakeismPosted: 30 May 2013 at 7:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Still waiting on that handjob from Blake”
“no, that’s only on Mondays!”
“Well I’m feeling a real bad case of the Mondays right now”Speaker: Blake and ColinSource: Daily huddle callPosted: 22 Feb 2013 at 9:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The same God that placed that star in a precise orbit millennia before it appeared over Bethlehem in celebration of the birth of the Babe has given at least equal attention to placement of each of us in precise human orbits so that we may, if we will, illuminate the landscape of our individual lives, so that our light may not only lead others but warm them as well.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: That My Family Should Partake (1974), 86Posted: 03 Jan 2013 at 7:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the sinners who believe themselves righteous.
Speaker: Blaise PascalPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Some Christians carry their religion on their backs. It is a packet of beliefs and practices which they must bear. At times it grows heavy and they would willingly lay it down, but that would mean a break with old traditions, so they shoulder it again. But real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight; it is wings. It lifts them up, it sees them over hard places, it makes the universe seem friendly, life purposeful, hope real, sacrifice worthwhile. It sets them free from fear, futility, discouragement, and sin—the great enslavers of men’s souls. You can know a real Christian, when you see him, by his buoyancy”
Speaker: Harry Emerson FosdickSource: Twelve Tests of Character [1923], 87–88Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 11:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not even enough for us to be convinced of the gospel; we must act and think so that we are converted by it. Now is the time for each of us to work toward our personal conversion, toward becoming what our Heavenly Father desires us to become.
Speaker: Dallin H. OaksSource: The Challenge to Become, Ensign, November 2000Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 10:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!