"Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God."

-- Evelyn Underhill

#Teacher Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Fascination Quotes

“Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?”

Source : Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.390, Atlantic Books
“Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.”
“I've got a crush on my backing singer.”
“Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.”

Source : Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1989). “Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
“Once you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that an interpretation based on imagination is equally erroneous, you will not find yourself facing a gaping void as you might have feared.”
“People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.”
“The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.”
“By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]”

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