Abdu'l-Bahá Quotes

Knowledge is the cause of human progress.

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• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Up
  • Family
  • Small

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
  • Tastes
  • Eclectic

• It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Money
  • Cool
  • Little

• Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Work
  • God
  • Devotion

• When I started Black Girls Code in 2011, there weren't any programs that had a foundation in communities of color to teach our kids about technology.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Kids
  • Black
  • Technology

• I am kind of being a little selective in what I do, so it takes a little bit longer, but it's worth it in the end.

  

  Chrissie Fit

• Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.

  

  Fred Armisen

• I'm sour at times.

  

  Jerry Lewis

• I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • People
  • School
  • Home

• I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.

  

  Jim McMahon

• The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.

  

  The Boz
  • Life
  • Football

• Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.

  

  Jenny McCarthy

• 'Gone Girl' is as much about the near impossibility of being a good husband as it is about the anguish of being a good wife.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Wife

• The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • God
  • Believe
  • Free

• Minimum wage law is the 'People's Fed.' Tie minimum wage to money supply. If there is pushback against this idea, then shut down the Fed and its ability to distort the economy, penalizing labor, or make the Fed's distortions available to all businesses and all workers.

  

  Max Keiser
  • People
  • Money
  • Law

• When somebody brings up a movie (of mine) that I haven't heard about in a long time, I feel like a 70-year-old pitcher at a bar somewhere, and somebody walks in and says, 'Oh, my God, I was in St. Louis and I saw you. You pitched a shutout.' It's real. I really did do that, because someone today remembers it.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Long
  • Real
  • Remember

• If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Knowledge
  • Democracy

• I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • She
  • Day
  • Before

• Knowledge is the cause of human progress.

  

  Abdu'l-Bahá
  • Knowledge
  • Progress
  • Cause