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gazing examination superstitions
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. David Hume
animal gazing cameras
[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill) Cecil Beaton
moon extraterrestrial star-gazing
In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves. Carl Sagan
rocks water gazing
As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson. Arthur Conan Doyle
thinking disrespect gazing
Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'. Alain de Botton
past giving gazing
Focusing intently on Christ naturally results in a lifestyle of increasingly greater selflessness. And it has another benefit. Gazing on Christ gives us greater ability to look past life's trials and remain calm in the midst of what others would call chaos. Charles R. Swindoll
self example gazing
The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them---or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for "I" was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were "they") being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair. Aldous Huxley
inspiration vision gazing
If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future. Robert Kiyosaki
patience kings gazing
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act. William Shakespeare
motivation examination bears
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination. Charlotte Lennox
rude examination awakening
Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination. Catherine Crier
paper examination six
The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted. Bertrand Russell
cutting examination information
Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics. Bernard Haisch
reflection examination evening
When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination. Jane Austen
knows self-examination
He who knows himself knows others. Charles Caleb Colton
gazing examination superstitions
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
examination dignity instinct
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. C. S. Lewis
differences finding-yourself examination
Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.
witch-doctors pieces superstitions
You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. Chinua Achebe
people superstitions sides
All people have their blind side-their superstitions. Charles Lamb
lying fighting superstitions
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects. Carl Jung
mean superstitions helping
Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available. Benjamin Haydon
superstitions tribes primitive
Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation. Bill Maher
superstitions judgment conscience
Conscience without judgment is superstition. Benjamin Whichcote
two wavering superstitions
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two. David Almond
superstitions way bluffs
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.
dry superstitions belief
Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well. Charles Spurgeon