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• Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

  Thomas Merton

  Thank You, Gratitude, Awakening

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Giving, Soul

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• Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

  Joan Erikson

  Book, Reading, Understanding

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• To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

  Thomas Merton

  Faith, Gratitude, Grateful

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• We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its root in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.

  Bruce Lee

  Roots, People, Insecurity

  "Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living".

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• I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.

  Kent Haruf

  Past, Long, Joy

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• If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.

  A. H. Almaas

  Believe, Mind, Realization

  A. H. Almaas (2011). “Diamond Heart: Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery”, p.63, Shambhala Publications

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• To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

  Thomas Merton

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan

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• .. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Determination, Children, Educational

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Tradition, Form, Notion

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• Isn't that something-to know your own soul by hearsay, instead of its own tidings? Why should I let a preacher tell me if I had one or not? If I could believe I hada soul, all by myself, then I could listen to its tidings all by myself.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Believe, Soul, Should

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.101, Dial Press

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• Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.

  Martin Heidegger

  Running, Fashion, Philosophy

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• Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters the first things and the right way the only source of knowledge was hearsay.

  Leo Strauss

  Eye, Men, Use

  Leo Strauss (1953). “Natural Right and History”, p.86, University of Chicago Press

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• A pathfinder's job is hard enough — blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way through bracken, worrying about lurking beasts, all you can do is hope you had chosen the right direction.

  Justina Chen

  Jobs, Worry, Way

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• I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Men, Race

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• I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

  Billy Crudup

  Our Society, Fantasy, Life Is

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• So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

  Tacitus

  Doubt, Obscurity, Facts

  Cornelius Tacitus (1860). “The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. With Notes ...”, p.119

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• The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.

  Vannoccio Biringuccio

  Science, Facts, Reason

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• The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.

  Alexander Girard

  Lying, Believe, Design

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• The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan.

  Rich Lowry

  Three, Cases, Made

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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