Zhang Zhidong Quotes

Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

Zhang Zhidong

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• Heaven
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• Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • Faith
  • Religion

• People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Religion
  • Enemy

• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Day

• The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Wish

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Cheating

• I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Life
  • Law
  • Husband

• It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Period

• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Religion
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly!

  

  Said Nursi
  • Religion
  • Stronger
  • Brothers

• I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Like
  • Religious
  • Religion

• 'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Black
  • Myself

• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• We are not by nature cruel.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Nature
  • Cruel

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• I had a dream, which was not all a dream.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Dream

• ...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

  

  Socrates
  • Believe
  • Better
  • Right

• I was a self – centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

  

  Cary Grant
  • Life
  • Women
  • Love

• There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose?

  

  Bill Maris
  • Money
  • Choice
  • Silicon Valley

• I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Environment

• Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Nature
  • Law
  • Heaven