Discourses Quotes

• There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Questions
  • Frequently
  • Discourses

• The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.

  

  John Fiske
  • Experience
  • Culture
  • Discourses

• The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

  

  Alison Assiter
  • Fiction
  • Feminism
  • Discourses

• Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Humanity
  • Pride
  • Vain

• Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

  

  Joyce Appleby
  • Knowledge
  • Contention
  • Discourses

• Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Community
  • Discipline
  • Sentences