Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Music
  • Dad

• I'm very content.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Very
  • Content

• Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Change
  • Beginning

• The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Life
  • Important
  • Heart

• It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Down
  • Head
  • Idiots

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Place
  • Economy
  • Changes

• I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • End
  • Hell
  • Champions

• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hand
  • Eye
  • Bored

• I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Skin
  • Bleaching

• Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Mind
  • Soul

• I'm a huge sushi fan. I have it every couple of days.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Couple
  • Fan
  • Days

• I think the movie Light of the World will help a lot of pastors.  It should get a lot of people sold-uh, saved.

  

  Jack Chick
  • People
  • World
  • Movie

• Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Responsibility

• The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.

  

  P. D. James
  • Law

• Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Morning

• To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Patience

• All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Character
  • Society

• Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Believe
  • Impossible

• O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And to think that this God loves me!... Mary, my mother, help me to love him in return.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Help
  • Mother

• Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Books
  • Students
  • Aim

• Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Reason
  • Books