Understandingly Quotes

#1. Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently ... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.

Alfred Stieglitz

#2. What is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and appropriated to this very object. it is that it should be employed understandingly, and for their greatest good. that good requires that, while they are ...

Thomas Jefferson

#3. Kiss thy lips and you will see what thou create.

Santosh Kalwar

#4. But there was something telling about that photograph, I thought; our protective glass frame shattered and now here we were, punctured with microscopic holes that might one day tear. Those holes all had names: mortgage, adolescent child, lack of communication, retirement savings, cancer.

Mary Kubica

#5. To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.

Blaise Pascal

#6. While the new Legionnaire man eliminated his enemies in the name of God, with a cross in his hand, the new Communist man eliminated God altogether and stood on His pedestal. They were both equally thirsty for blood.

Teodor Flonta

#7. He was so pleasant that his fellow writers, his rivals and contemporaries, forgave him even the fact that he was a gentleman.

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. The best form of devotion to the service of Allah is not to make a show of it.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

#9. Trouble is, your best ain't always the best for those who want a say in the matter.

Jacqueline Winspear

#10. We're all what we are. And we're all subject to change. It is a journey from here to there.

Elif Shafak