Anna Leonowens Quotes

The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

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• My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.

  

  Oliver North
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Understood

• I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Always
  • Understood
  • Machine

• In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Taught
  • Doctrine

• I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • God
  • America

• To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Doctrine
  • Despise

• Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • God
  • Truth

• Doctrine does matter.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Matter
  • Doctrine
  • Does

• What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Bible
  • Doctrine

• The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battleground on which they could whip their fellow men in a game based on the Calvinist doctrine that man is meant to suffer here below and never more than when he goes out to enjoy himself.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Game

• It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • God
  • Believe
  • She

• My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Fate
  • Facts
  • Understood

• In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Relationship
  • Purpose
  • Forgiveness

• I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Respect
  • Understood

• Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Happy
  • Morality
  • Doctrine

• Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

  

  Plato
  • Things
  • Understood
  • Opposites

• The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Black
  • Understood
  • Mars

• What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Understood
  • Praised
  • Blamed

• It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those people who reflect his love in their words and deeds. It ultimately gets understood and accepted by the child in poverty, and through that individual's love for others, the world gets changed.

  

  Wess Stafford
  • People
  • Children
  • Poverty

• Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The problem with describing women as girls is that they never grow up and therefore can't take positions of authority in the world of sport. But the good news is that you can change language, so ultimately you can change the picture of women in sports.

  

  Anita DeFrantz
  • Women
  • Change
  • Picture

• The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Changes
  • Disappointment
  • Variety

• A cocktail will never be better than its cheapest ingredient.

  

  David A. Embury
  • Ingredients
  • Cocktails

• I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Fighting

• The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

  

  Anna Leonowens
  • Understood
  • Doctrine
  • Interpreted