Guides Quotes - Page 7

• The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Fun, Laughter, Philosophy

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• Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.

  Simon Sinek

  Book, Creativity, Discipline

  Twitter post from Jul 06, 2010

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• Grace is that thing that shows up to guide you when you've done the first two steps and you're intent on doing something larger than just yourself. That's when all of the sudden things are great.

  Tony Robbins

  Two, Grace, Done

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• If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock in the morning, a boy trying to select a career, a woman in an unhappy love affair--well then, surely no pragmatist will object. He insists only that philosophy shall come down to earth and be tried out there.

  Walter Lippmann

  Morning, Philosophy, Boys

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.145, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Father, Dark

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• The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.

  John Dewey

  Responsibility, Practice, Rewards

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.264, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

  William Blake

  Angel, Writing, Hands

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.73, Delphi Classics

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• When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

  Walter Scott

  Father, Israel, Flames

  Walter Scott (1862). “Ivanhoe: A Romance”, p.326

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• And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

  John Milton

  Light, Umpires, Safe

  1665 Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.3, l.194-7.

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• Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Break, Ends, Young

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Drama, Plot, Scene

  "The Rivals". Comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Epilogue), January 17, 1775.

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• Father, show me how to praise Thee When I seek Thy courts to-day; Guide me by Thy love, and raise me -- Let me feel the words I say. Bless me on this hallowed morning, Bid my soul to Thee draw near; Teach me, and my heart shall listen -- Speak, Lord, and Thy child shall hear.

  Sarah Doudney

  Morning, Children, Father

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• Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

  Thomas Chatterton

  Men, Sides, Reason

  Thomas Chatterton (1842). “The Poetical Works with Notices of His Life, History of the Rowley Controversy, a Selection of His Letters and Notes Critical and Explanatory: I-II”, p.440

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• The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly, if we look into particular communities and divisions of men, we may observe that it is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to the society.

  Joseph Addison

  Witty, Men, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.130

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• While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Past, Mirrors, Too Much

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

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• Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

  Mark Twain

  Masters, Subtlety, Jokes

  'The Innocents Abroad' (1869) ch. 27

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• Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.

  Sigmund Freud

  God, Father, Sea

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• I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.

  Davy Crockett

  Honesty, Book, Men

  Davy Crockett, Thomas Chilton (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee”, p.135

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• A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Opposites, Important

  "Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information" edited by Alois Pichler and Herbert Hrachovec, (p. 140), 2008.

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• Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

  Arthur Helps

  Leadership, Party, Eye

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which are the causes and effects of the true motions.

  Isaac Newton

  Mean, Differences, Space

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.470, Delphi Classics

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• Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors.

  David Hume

  Errors, Matter, Facts

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1993). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.73, Hackett Publishing

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• Do not take a blind guide.

  Aristophanes

  Blind

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• It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, Passion, Light

  "The Monkey Grammarian". Book by Octavio Paz, Ch. 2, 1974.

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• Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.

  Ramakrishna

  Guru, Universe

  Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

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